Head of Europol’s European Counter Terrorism Centre, Manuel Paniagua stated that more than 150 people were killed, over 360 were injured during terrorist attacks conducted in the EU countries in 2015.
During the meeting with members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, he said that terrorists were behind a total of 211 failed and committed attacks in the EU last year.
He also added that the bloodiest 17 terrorist attacks were carried out by so-called jihadists, and 667 suspects were arrested on related charges.
Paniagua noted that terrorist cells, ready to carry out attacks in the European Union, were homegrown but had connections to the ISIS terrorist group.
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