Prague, March 3 (CTK) – Support for radical positions was registered only in case of a few members of the Czech Muslim community, but none of these people had links to foreign Islamists groups, BIS counter-intelligence spokesman Jan Subert told CTK on Thursday.
“It is crucial that militants who would try to radicalise our Muslim community do not penetrate among Czech Muslims from abroad. So far, this has not happened,” he said.
According to rough estimates, about 20,000 Muslims live in the country with 10.5 million inhabitants. In the 2011 census, only 2000 people stated their religion was Islam.
Subert said BIS had no information about any imminent terrorist threat in Czech territory.
Subert said the Czech Republic closely cooperates with foreign secret services because of terrorism.
In 2015, BIS received over 8100 dispatches, news and documents from its foreign partners and it handed 1500 of them to the partners. The vast majority of the dispatches concerned terrorism.
