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According to the AIVD, there are around 500 jihadists and sympathizers in the Netherlands of their fundamentalist views. According to the intelligence services, there is a potential threat.
The report also states that the threshold required to carry out attacks on behalf of terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State or Al-Qaida has been lowered. Travelers, returnees, deceased and detained travelers strongly influence the jihadist movement in the Netherlands.
Threat
The German mentions the seven men arrested last September. They had the intention to commit an attack on an event, for which event was not announced. Men were in the picture of the AIVD for a long time. They are believed to have prepared a terrorist attack in the Netherlands and to have participated in a terrorist organization. They are still blocked.
,, The attraction of jihadist ideology remains and thus poses a long-term threat, "according to the AIVD.The threat that hangs over the West and the Netherlands seems to be a structural element of the AIVD.In European society, the threat of attacks is still present despite the lost caliphate. "The organization has turned into a clandestine movement that is prepares for a resurrection to rediscover the dream of the caliphate. "
Islamic State
In total, about 310 people left the Netherlands to visit the combat zone in Syria and Iraq, and about 135 people There are still 85 people who have died in recent years and about 55 have returned.
About 35 people are still in the area, for example in a refugee camp or as a prisoner, several dozens of Dutch jihadists have tried to get to the battlefield but not to 9 have not touched. "Some of them have not given up on ideas since then and are still part of the jihadist movement in the Netherlands."
The Caliphate of the Islamic State was declared by the leader of the IS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in mid-2014. The jihadist ideology persists even without a new catalyst, such as the Syrian civil war of a few years ago.
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