EU-Mediterranean under jihadist threat – Terra Peru

The Euro-Mediterranean Summit that begins Monday in Barcelona will take place under heavy security. Most of the delegations will be led by two foreign ministers.

This jihadist threat led Spain to raise the terror alert level 4 on a scale of 1 to 5, after the attacks in Paris in January. Spanish Secretary of State for Security, Francisco Martínez said nuance however, that despite the international scene, in which “there are serious threats” that “in other countries have resulted in terrorist acts”, “the jihadist threat as” complex “know not usually aim at such events. ” That does not mean, he added, that “all precautions” are adopted, so consequently the security deployment will “certainly very intense for this threat and other threats”, since the alert level which is Spain “has its impact in the field of safety devices”.

Most of the participating delegation to the summit will be headed by Foreign Ministers of the respective countries. The deployment for the Barcelona Summit “is a safety device that is based on the precedents of other international events in which coordination for the Ministry of Interior,” said the secretary of state.

Focal

Thus, in the case of an international conference, led by the Secretary of State for Security, “a focal shall” “which will be integrated all police and other who will have input into the device bodies, “he said.

In particular, there will be effective from the National Police, Guardia Civil, Mossos d’Esquadra (Catalan police), Guardia Urbana (city police of Barcelona) and services of Civil Protection and Emergency to which has coordinated “so that covered all the points that you have to give protection to all persons who are coming to this summit”.

“capsules dynamic protection”

So, he said, the airport of Barcelona, ​​the Civil Guard cover the safety of government airplanes move to the representatives of the invited countries and a series of caravans where the dynamic protection will be provided by the National Police, which “establish these capsules dynamic protection” will be organized.

As for the presence of the Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, his protection, according to Martinez, will be covered by the security department of Prime Minister. All of this device, which requires close coordination and cooperation between law enforcement bodies, and also will “generate the necessary intelligence on potential threats to go evaluating a table coordinated by the Secretariat of State for Security “intelligence

JOV (efe, dpa)

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