Secret services across EU countries are on high alert after statements by Europol Director Rob Wainwright that ISIS is planning to send jihadists to European countries in response to its defeats on the ground in Syria. According to Wainwright, a large number of hardcore jihadists are already in possession of fake EU passports to travel from Syria to Europe. In an interview to newspaper Standard, the head of the European police force said Europol is preparing to dispatch 200 officers to Greece over the next period to detect possible extreme islamist jihadists operating in refugee hotspots to recruit new members. The Turkish secret services (MIT) have also been asked to contribute with intelligence in detecting possible islamic extremists. Wainwright warned that these islamist extremists are trying to radicalise refugees and migrants in the reception centres in Greece and in the Balkans. ‘The officers will be deployed to the Greek islands, maybe in Italy. There will be a second line of defence. We hope to assign some officers in the refugee and migrant reception centres as we are concerned about reports that these hotspots are targets for efforts to radicalise migrants’, Wainwright said. He predicted that the jihadists will have more ‘impressive’ attacks in Europe in the future, adding there are currently 50 anti-terrorist operations being conducted throughout Europe.