Terrorism seeping out of ME and into Europe, Ali says

Director of the Middle East Center for Studies in Paris, Abdelrahim Ali, said Wednesday that the high wave of terrorism that hit the Arab countries in the past few years had started seeping into the European Continent.

He added at a conference in French capital Paris on similarities and differences between the yellow vest protests in France and the Arab Spring protests in the Arab world that Europe believed for long that it was immune from the terrorism that was happening in the Arab region.

Ali noted that it is necessary now to find the similarities and the differences between what had happened in the Arab region and what might happen in Europe in the coming months or years.

He said the Tahrir Square protests in Egypt were born a long time earlier than 2011, especially in 2005 with some forces mobilizing the Egyptian public against the Egyptian regime, using deteriorating economic and social conditions.

Ali revealed that Tahrir Square was full of intelligence agents from almost all countries.

These agents, he said, steered the protests in ways that served the best interests, not of Egypt, but of their countries.