“We keep seeing this across Europe and we find it very interesting. It seems like there is some type of machinery in place, or structure,” said Saman Nazari, the lead researcher at Alliance4Europe, a Brussels-based nonprofit.

“Quite regularly, we are seeing this escalation happening across Europe now, with these types of crises. It is too much of a coincidence to be a bandwagoning effect.”

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The 411 analysis said: “That machinery is the real thing to worry about, more than this particular crisis. The next time there’s a border incident anywhere on the Mediterranean, those same relay networks are already in place, ready to pick it up and run with it again.”