Angela Merkel's migrant failure exposed as up to ONE FIFTH VANISH as Germany UNPREPARED
EMBARRASSED officials in Germany are hunting for over 3,000 refugees in one state alone who have vanished off the radar.
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The migrants were part of a wave of arrivals who came to Germany in 2015 via the so-called Balkan route.
Now there are fears a number of those who have gone underground may be sleepers for Islamic State (ISIS), biding their time until their Middle Eastern paymasters give them orders to commit acts of terror.
The missing migrants were reported in the state of Brandenburg next door to the capital Berlin.
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Fifteen to 20 percent of 18,000 refugees are obviously submerged
The public prosecutor's office has begun retroactive checks on the asylum seekers.
"Fifteen to 20 percent of 18,000 refugees are obviously submerged," said prosecutor Ulrich Scherding.
Officials admitted that during the chaos of the crisis the data of thousands of migrants was "inadequately captured".
The migrants were part of a wave of arrivals who came to Germany via the so-called Balkan route
Brandenburg's Interior Minister Karl-Heinz Schröter said the technology to fingerprint all 47,000 refugee arrivals in the state in 2015 simply did not exist.
The hope among security officials is that a sizeable portion of the missing simply wandered away to other places.
But the fear is that ISIS almost certainly controls a number of them.
She also said Islam was not a source of terror after jihadis carried out terror attacks in Berlin, as well as Paris and Nice.
Speaking at the Munich security council, she said: “The joint fight against Islamic terrorism is one area where we have the same interests and we can work together.”