Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Abela said on Times Talk on Tuesday that extremists were taking the opportunity of the lack of uncertainty in Libya to set up base in the country.
He said that although the possibility of extremists arriving in Malta as irregular immigrants by boat could not be excluded, the possibility was somewhat
"farfetched".
On Tuesday, Times Talk discussed the migration chaos amid the second major conflict in Libya in four years.
Jesuit Refugee Service director Katrine Camilleri, historian Henry Frendo and anthropologist David Zammit debated whether the hundreds of migrants who are making the crossing in the the winter are leaving Libya voluntarily or are actually being forced onto boats. The programme also featured interventions by MOAS director Martin Xuereb and Matteo de Bellis from Amnesty International.
Presented by Times of Malta’s head of media Herman Grech and chief reporter Mark Micallef, Times Talk is live on TVM on Tuesday at 6.45pm.