Czech General warns the EU: Beware of Balkan Terrorists

“We are dealing with a whole other part of Europe, meaning Western and Central Europe, while the Balkans have ceased to pay attention, especially in the area of security”, Jiri Sedivy told Czech media.

The Balkan “problem is that it creates a safe environment where terrorist cells can be created, there can be prepared, they can have their logistics centers and background to enable them to attack and at the same time cease from complicated operations in Western Europe,” said Sedivy.

General Cek stressed that German and Austrian intelligence services warned in the last year that the Balkan region has radicalised dramatically, and that the problem presents the fact that Balkan Muslims are the target of different Islamic regimes in the Middle East, the voice-transmitts.info.

General Sedivy, has said the current government in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo are not quite efficient enough to deal with the phenomenon of radicalisation that has stalled since the Yugoslav wars of the nine years.

Kosovo is constantly struggling with economic problems, there is great unemployment. All of this constitutes a fertile basis for radicalism to be constantly strengthened and expanded”, Sedivy said.

The general warned that it is necessary for the Czech Republic to pay attention to the Balkans, because Islamic terrorists, when the West drastically reinforces security measures, will head to other countries in Central Europe, where there have been no attacks and where security measures are not so pronounced, while the Balkans are only hours by car to the Czech border.

“We simply need to know what is happening in these two countries, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Kosovo, and possibly in Macedonia, and we need to give equal attention to the problem of terrorism in Western Europe”, the former chief of the Czech Army said. /Zeri