” “"The Governments have a duty to do all they can to protect the populations from the terrorist threat". This warning comes from the Council of Europe (CoE) at the dawn of the sixth anniversary of the September 11th attacks in New York. On this day, reads a release from the CoE, "the world brutally entered a new era. In New York, in Washington and in Pennsylvania, men and women were killed, the victims of a new form of terrorism that strikes with unheard-of brutality and on an unprecedented scale. After that, there have been other attacks in Europe and in the world. The recent arrests in Denmark and Germany remind us that the terrorist threat is intact and is everywhere". However, according to the CoE, the Governments must respond "without infringing human rights, which, for the CoE member states, means respecting the European Convention for Human Rights". "Deviating from this line of action concludes the CoE would be tantamount to play the terrorists’ game, because, at that point, good and evil would be on a par, and the terrorists would find it easier to recruit new ones and extend their influence. Respecting human rights is a prerequisite to triumph over terrorism". ” “
