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12 May 2021
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2019
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Threat from radicalising prisoners
In 2019, EU Member States reported that individuals imprisoned for terrorist offences and prisoners who radicalise in prison pose a threat both during their imprisonment and after release. The threat manifested itself in one foiled and one failed attack by prisoners.
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The threat from radicalised prisoners manifested itself in the EU in 2019 in one failed and one foiled attack by prison inmates and the attack in London on 29 November by a terrorist convict released on licence.
EU Member States reported that individuals imprisoned for terrorist offences and prisoners who radicalise in prison pose a threat both during their imprisonment and after release. In 2019 the failed attack on 5 March in a French prison, the thwarted 23 July attack on prison guards in France and the 29 November attack in London (UK) by a recently released prisoner, are indicative of the threat. France reported that more than 500 terrorist convicts live in French prisons alongside 900 radicalised individuals. Between mid-2018 and the end of 2019, a total of four attacks in French prisons were foiled.
Five inmates who formed a jihadist cell among prisoners in two Spanish prisons were indicted in February 2019 for indoctrination and terrorist recruitment. In Belgium, just over 200 people were being formally
monitored in prison in 2019 on account of their radicalisation.
In many EU Member States, a number of radicalised individuals will soon
be released, thereby increasing the security threat. Belgium observed that
some prisoners prefer to serve their entire sentence without request for
early release as no conditions or probation measures can be imposed
after their release. The Netherlands is concerned that jihadists in prison
have the potential to create new networks which may strengthen the
jihadist community following their release or give rise to jihadist networks
abroad that pose a threat to the Netherlands.
In Spain, a high percentage of incarcerated non-terrorist offenders were
radicalised by jihadist ideology. Denmark is concerned that radicalised
inmates in contact with people from organised crime circles may pose an
increasing risk of jihadists gaining access to weapons.
Source:
Report
European Union Terrorism Situation and Trend report 2020
Date published
18 March 2021
