IS infiltrating Europe via smugglers’ boats

The EU’s top prosecutor said she has been told smugglers bringing migrants across the Mediterranean to Europe are also carrying terrorist fighters from Islamic State.

Michele Coninsx, head of the EU’s judicial co-operation agency Eurojust, said she received the information as part of Eurojust’s efforts to help EU nations jointly respond to illegal immigration, terrorism, and cybercrime.

Coninsx said Eurojust’s co-ordination efforts are ongoing and she could not divulge what EU nations have told the agency.