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Refugees Arriving in Denmark Could Affect Country’s Security

© AP Photo / Ernst van NordeA group of refugees and migrants who were walking north stand on the highway in southern Denmark on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015
A group of refugees and migrants who were walking north stand on the highway in southern Denmark on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) said that a massive influx of refugees to Denmark could affect the country’s security since some of the new arrivals might hold extremist views and potentially commit terrorist attacks in the country.

Danish police guard a train carrying migrants, mainly from Syria and Iraq, at Rodby train station, south of Denmark, September 9, 2015. The migrants, hoping to get to Sweden, arrived at Rodby on Tuesday night and refused to leave the train to get registered in Denmark. - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) A massive influx of refugees to Denmark could affect the country’s security since some of the new arrivals might hold extremist views and potentially commit terrorist attacks in the country, the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) said Friday.

"PET is aware that among the refugees from Syria/Iraq could be people who sympathize with militant Islam and could consider acting on the encouragement of militant Islamic propaganda to carry out attacks against counties participating in the international coalition against Islamic State, including Denmark," the agency said in a written comment to the local Berlingske newspaper, translated by The Local.

The agency added that the refugees themselves could be targeted by people who hold extreme political views on the question of immigration to Denmark.

Denmark is one of several EU countries reeling from the rapidly escalating refugee crisis, as hundreds of thousands of people flee their homelands in the Middle East, North and Sub-Saharan Africa in the hope of finding refuge in the European Union.

According to media reports, some 3,200 refugees arrived in the country between Sunday and Thursday, although many of them later traveled on to Sweden. A total of 20,000 of refugees are expected to apply for asylum in Denmark in 2015.

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