Security expert tells GB News 'threat is still out there' from 'thousands' of violent extremists in Britain

Home and Security Editor Mark White told GB News the threat from potential terrors attacks is 'still out there' and has evolved into more 'low tech' attacks from single terrorists.

On the seventh anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo terror attack in Paris Mr White said on To The Point, ''The threat is still out there of significant casualty attacks."

He added: "They are tracking ten of thousands of people who are described as extremist with a potential to cross over into violent extremism."

He also said, "It's evolved as a threat as the terrorists would call those were 'spectaculars', multiple people involved in attacking multiple areas and trying to kill as many people as possible. What we've had since by and large are the more low tech attacks that can be very deadly and very traumatising" said Mr White.

Mr White added the threat of terror attacks still exists around Europe and not just in France.

"It's not just a French problem it's a problem we are seeing in other European countries, Germany suffered from two attacks last year.

"They are tracking ten of thousands of people who are described as extremist with a potential to cross over into violent extremism."

On 7 January 2015, militant Islamists shot dead 11 people inside Charlie Hebdo head office in Paris, before murdering a policeman outside.

It was described as the beginning of a wave of jihadist attacks across France.

We also saw a significant terror attack on our shores around this time.

In 2017 hundreds of people were injured alongside the 22 who died, who included six children under 16, the youngest aged just eight, in the attack by suicide bomber Salman Abedi at the end of an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena.

Mark White discussed that previous attacks that took place in this country may have have inspired less sophisticated attacks of a similar style. Commenting on the similarities between the Manchester Arena attack and the Liverpool Children's Hospital bomb attack that detonated in the back of a taxi.

"In this country of course we did see the Manchester Arena attack which was a plot that was a lot more sophisticated in terms of construction of a device which may have of course may have resulted in that of that Liverpool Children's hospital attack that took place before Christmas."