Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has posed a global warning, saying terrorists have entered European borders as Syrian refugees. The excerpts from Assad’s interview containing the claim to Czech television were broadcast on Monday.

When asked whether Europeans should be scared of Syrian refugees, he said that a mixture of both true and fake refugees are entering Europe. “The majority, they are good Syrians, they are patriots... But of course you have infiltration of terrorists among them, that is true,” Reuters reported Assad as saying.

Czech Television said that it had taken an interview of the Syrian president in Damascus and would air the full interview on Tuesday. European border has allowed hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria to enter the continent in 2015 without verifying the documents and their identities properly. This makes it possible that many ISIS militants have entered the region in the wake of European refugee crisis.

To make sure there is a stop put to influx of Syrian refugees, the European Union has agreed to provide Turkey 3 billion euros (approx. AU$4.42 billion). This will aid Turkey to keep refugees and help them get considerable standard of living, thereby stemming the refugee intake.

Six serial blasts at different locations in Paris by the ISIS militants took 130 lives and caused injuries. The sudden attacks posed numerous questions on European refugee intake and the union’s security system.

Authorities had taken the fingerprints of two of the Paris attackers while they travelled through Greece in October, as stated by a Paris prosecutor. One was identified as Ahmad al-Mohammad from the passport recovered nearby his dead body. However, it is still unclear whether the passport belonged to him or was stolen.

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