The risk of a terrorist attack in the Czech Republic is not imminent but real, head of the police headquarters' anti-terrorism department Jiri Raz said at a conference on terrorism in Brno, east of the country, on Thursday.
"It is necessary to emphasize that the problem of terrorism is not fashionable or virtual but real," the Czech news agency CTK quoted Raz as saying.
It is not widely known that jihad against the Czech Republic was officially announced. Its reason is the participation of Czech soldiers in the international military mission in Afghanistan, Raz said.
According to the police, a terrorist attack that militants could organize in the Czech Republic would probably be a matter of an individual or a narrow group of people. And the attackers would probably use explosives in it.
"According to our information, no terrorist organization permanently operates in the Czech Republic and no open expression of terrorism has taken place there," Raz said.
However, police have registered that well known terrorists who are prosecuted in other countries have either stayed in the Czech Republic and passed through its territory, he said.
Police have also come across the material that was produced with the goal to radicalize young people and attract them to supporting jihad, CTK said.
"We have also discovered Internet pages in the Czech language that provided advice on how to build a training camp, how to communicate without using such words as an attack or a bomb in thecommunication, the pages that contain sharply hostile texts aimed against the United States and Europe and glorifying international terrorism," Raz said.
According to him, terrorist attacks do not take place far from the Czech Republic but very near it.
It is rather necessary to improve action ability of specialized police units, to raise to a better level communication between police units in the Czech Republic and abroad and to achieve a better quality of cooperation with the judiciary, he said.
State institutions should also bear in mind the danger of a terrorist attack while preparing integrated rescue systems and it is also necessary to increase the awareness of public institutions and the general public awareness of terrorism.
Source: Xinhua
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