‘Low-cost’ terror ‘key challenge for EU’

Preventing “low-cost” terrorism involving a vehicle or a knife is a key challenge for European law and order agencies, the EU security commissioner said in Dublin yesterday.

Julian King said recent atrocities, in St Petersburg and London, were “attacks on our shared European values”. He said the four people killed and the 50 people injured in the Westminster attack a fortnight ago were from 11 countries.

“One of the injured was Irish and another victim probably owes his life to the fast-thinking and responses of an Irishwoman who performed CPR on him until the emergency services arrived on the scene,” said Mr King.