Shifa Rahaman
April 20th, 2016

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Metroxpress reports that some intelligence agencies fear IS militants will target tourists at popular European travel destinations in Spain, France and Italy this summer – all of which generally attract a large number of Danes.

The German newspaper Bild was the first to report that the authorities feared the possibility of attacks, such as the one on a beach in the Tunisian holiday destination of Sousse, occurring on European soil.

Posing as refugees
Bild reported that according to information from a ‘reliable source’ in Africa, the IS militants hope to employ the strategy of posing as refugees selling ice cream and t-shirts in a bid to get close to tourists.

The paper also reported there were plans to detonate suicide belts buried under sun loungers on popular beaches.

Recently, Spanish police arrested a IS sympathiser on the popular holiday island of Majorca who was suspected of planning attacks targeting western tourists on the island.