The professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid Luis de la Court has addressed this afternoon the threat of jihadist terrorism in the Second Conference on Security and Defense organized by the Politénica University of Cartagena (UPCT), believes that "tackling" the problem should be earmark "more resources, but the problem is that European public opinion is not aware of the risks and threats of this terrorism."
In this sense, warns that Internet "has played a key role in the exponential increase in cases of radicalization" but is also serving the Intelligence Services to disrupt jihadist cells because "it is easier to detect radicalization processes through from Internet".
This terrorism in Spain, the expert adds that if one takes into account the number of people who have been radicalized in the country and have managed to reach Syria or Iraq, "the level of risk in Spain is much lower than other countries like France , Belgium or Germany. "
To this he adds that if the Spanish side the number of operations is studied jihadist terrorism "is a record number in recent years, the security forces act with very high efficiency."
Finally he proposes to tackle the problem greater cooperation among international intelligence services, develop plans for prevention of radicalization that have already been approved in Spain and increase resources available.
Source: UPCT