European intelligence services face questions over their apparent failure to coordinate their action and stop the gunman although he had been on their radar for several years as a serious threat, write David Chazan in Paris and James Badcock in Algeciras.
He was placed on the Schengen register, in which information about “persons of interest” is shared by 27 European countries, as early as 2012, according to the Spanish newspaper El Pais.
There are discrepancies between French and Spanish accounts of his movements in the years leading up to the attempted attack, as leaked to the media by intelligence sources in the two countries. French and Spanish security services are reportedly engaged in a row over who may be to blame.
In France, Ayoub el-Khazzani was classified as a grade 3 threat, meaning he was considered to pose a serious risk. Those identified as a threat to national security are graded on a scale from 1, the highest risk, to 16, the lowest.
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