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Nobody is safe, but everybody should have confidence in security forces: Spanish PM

Xinhua, November 20, 2015 Adjust font size:

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Thursday that 'nobody was safe' from the threat of jihadist terrorism, but adding that people should have faith in the ability of security forces to protect them.

Speaking at an event in Madrid where his People's Party (PP) presented their list of candidates for the December 20th general election, Rajoy spoke clearly of the threat posed by DAESH (Islamic State) in the wake of the November 13th attacks on Paris which left 129 people dead.

Spain has itself experienced Islamist terror, when 191 people were killed in the Madrid train bombings in 2004 and the Prime Minister could not guarantee total security now.

"Nobody is safe from what could happen," he said, before adding that Spaniards "have to have confidence in the efficiency of the security forces, which has been demonstrated by the police and civil guards."

"They are people with experience and they know what to do," he commented.

Rajoy failed to rule out that Spain would be asked to contribute more to the military effort in Syria and said the country was disposed to collaborate "in Spain and abroad."

He also asked the countries most implicated in the conflict to "resolve the problems in Syria together and to deal a blow to DAESH."

"Jihadism," he said, was "the biggest enemy of human beings, here and in every country in the world," and he promised Spanish security forces would "continue to preserve here the unity, improvement and, what is most important, the defense of human lives." Endit