Swedish authorities on red alert for imminent terrorist attack

Terrorists infiltrate Swedish Green party, say authorities

Swedish media report that the country’s security forces are on red alert, as information of an imminent terrorist attack by ISIS fighters has been disclosed. According to the International Centre for Counter Terrorism (ICCT), at least 300 Swedish national have travelled to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamic State (ISIS), many of whom have returned to Stockholm and are planning attacks in the country’s capital. The head of the Swedish police department told media that police was collecting information in cooperation with other European intelligent services. The reports speak of 7 or 8 ISIS terrorists have returned to Sweden and are preparing an attack plan. individuals. In March Europol announced that 3 to 5 thousand citizens had received training in jihadist military camps and have returned to Europe to carry out attacks. An even more worrying fact is that according to an April report published in Swedish media, islamist extremists had infiltrated in the country’s Green party. ‘People affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood-an Islamist group- were recruiting members of the Green party’, said Lars Nicander from the Swedish National Defence