In the intelligence of Europe and the United States, they recognized the vulnerability in tracking single terrorists

Recent terrorist attacks in the USA and Europe revealed the vulnerability of intelligence services to single terrorists. As recognized in intelligence, existing data collection systems practically do not allow to identify such terrorists and prevent the mass killings that they prepare. This was told by Reuters by several representatives of the counter -terrorism structures of the United States, Great Britain and France.

The interlocutors of the agency drew attention to the fact that all the attacks that had occurred recently were arranged by people with psychiatric diseases, almost no ties with extremist groups. In particular, we are talking about an execution at a nightclub in the American city of Orlando (Florida),the murder of a deputy of the British Parliament from the Labor Party Joe Cox, the murder of police officers in Baton-Ruzh, Louisiana and Dallas (Texas), a terrorist attack in a trading center in Munich.

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The tactics of such attacks sharply contrasts with a series of terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels, which were arranged by extremists directly related to the Islamic State terrorist group (IGIL, ISIS, Daesh , is prohibited in the Russian Federation), Reuters notes.

According to the latest data, as a result of an attack on the Olympia shopping center in Munich, nine people were killed on Friday, 16 people were hospitalized. The police suggested that three people participated in the attack, but none of the criminals were detained. Subsequently, the police found the body of an 18-year-old native of Iran, German citizen Ali David Sonboli, and announced the completion of the operation.

On the eve of Munich’s police, they reported that Sonboli could have problems with the psyche. According to the investigation, he appealed to the doctor with complaints of depression and studied mass killings.

The firing at the Gay Club in Orlando Omar Matin felt that he was close to psychosis, his acquaintance told Reuters. According to the interlocutor of the agency, three weeks before the execution, Matin said that he studied the possibilities of psychiatric treatment. According to the police, he was subject to Islamic propaganda, but his direct connections were never found.

American officials are also studying what role psychiatric diseases could play in the case of firing at the police in Baton-Rug and Dallas, RBC notes. In both cases, even before attacks, the shooters had signs of such disorders. Thomas Meira, who killed a member of the British parliament Joe Cox, had psychiatric problems.

According to Reuters sources, existing data collection systems are not designed to calculate people with psychiatric diseases who are subject to propaganda or come into contact with people who can push them to crime. Terrorists' combat units are focused mainly on the prevention of attacks that prepare large groups. So, according to officials, until the last attacks, the special services of the United States and Europe were engaged exclusively with the identification and tracking of militants who were trained from extremists, including the IG.

The agency’s interlocutors draw attention to the fact that in the USA, laws protect people who have no proven ties with foreign terrorist organizations, limiting reconnaissance and other bodies in collecting data against them.