(National-UAE) Paris is facing the threat of terrorist attacks during the Olympics from a branch of ISIS resurgent in Afghanistan as well as teenagers radicalised on social media, experts have told the National.
A major security operation is under way in France to protect the Games from extremists looking to use the high-profile world sporting events to commit acts of violence.
Terror expert Peter Neumann estimates that a “couple of dozen [known operatives] are still at large,” which alongside youthful radicalisation is the most potent threat authorities have faced.
There have been 60 arrests for terror-related offences over the past eight months in Europe “and two-thirds of those arrests were of teenagers,” said Prof Neumann, who founded the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College London.
