EU-security service warns of espionage in Brussels

About 250 Chinese and 200 Russian spies, according to a report in the newspaper, is currently active in Brussels - apparently so active that the EU warned the security service, diplomats are now afraid to visit certain Local.

The internal security service of the European external action service (EEAS) in Brussels, European diplomats, and the military has warned about a newspaper report that it is a serious espionage by Chinese and Russian secret services. In Brussels, some 250 Chinese and 200 Russian spies were "" reported the "Welt am Sonntag", citing EU diplomats.

The diplomats were warned according to the report, about prior to the particular Local, in the European quarter, including a popular Steakhouse and a Café in close proximity to the main building of the EU Commission and to the building of the EEAS. The Chinese and Russian intelligence officers working in Brussels, therefore, especially in the embassies or trade missions of their home countries.

In Brussels, it is, according to the "world" as it is an open secret that the attaches, who accompany diplomats of third countries in the case of receptions in embassies, often under cover agents. In addition to Russian and Chinese, in particular, American and Moroccan agents are supposed to be in Brussels.

reported on How the "world", were represented, according to the security service in former times, most of the Russian agents in the European capital. Specific Figures were not mentioned in this context.