More than 6,000 Europeans Fighting with Syria Takfiris

The number of Europeans fighting with Takfiri groups in Syria could exceed 6,000, a top EU official told a French newspaper Monday.

“At the European level, we estimate that 5,000-6,000 individuals have left for Syria,” EU Justice Commissioner Vera Jouriva told Le Figaro in an interview, adding the true number was likely to be far higher due to the difficulty of tracking foreign fighters in the conflict.

At the time of the attacks in Paris and Copenhagen, we decided not to allow ourselves to be guided by fear,” she said, referring to January’s twin attacks by extremists in the French capital and the subsequent deadly shootings on a cultural centre in Denmark.