“The secret services are overworked and are having to monitor too many people who pose a danger to national security, and this could also have played a role in Monday evening’s attack in Berlin”, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said on M1 Hungarian television’s Friday evening current affairs programme.

With relation to the questions are raised by the Berlin attack and the fact that the perpetrator was able to move freely within Europe, György Bakondi replied: “one of these questions is the ‘movement’ of illegal immigration and terrorism, which has been going on for the past two years, and the related increase in crime”.

“There are three dangerous groups; one is the soldiers, who have already been involved in fighting, the other is former secret service agents, who are capable of directing networks, and the third, which also played a role in this case, are the Wahhabi missionaries, who may be effective in spreading the faith to disenchanted migrants or to second or third generation Europeans of immigrant descent”, he said.

With reference to the Berlin attack Mr. Bakondi said it was also important to note that the secret services are overworked and are having to monitor too many people who pose a danger to national security, and as a result are having to stop monitoring if they are unable “to get results” within a few months.

“This is also what happened in the case of the Berlin attacker, whose monitoring was suspended in October”, Mr. Bakondi said.

On Monday evening, a heavy goods vehicle ploughed into the crowd at one of the German capital’s largest Christmas markets on Breitscheid Square. According to the authorities, the truck was driven by know Islamist and rejected asylum seeker Anis Amri. The Tunisian man fled to France by unknown means and later appeared in Milan, where he was killed in a shootout with police.

(Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister)