[ April 19, 2024 ]
Prisons are hotbeds of jihad recruitment. It’s a bloody time bomb.
Thousands of inmates set to be freed from European prisons at the end of their terms may have been radicalised as Islamist militants while in jail, EU security chief warns
- Julian King said there were more than 1,000 people being held on terror charges
- Others locked up for unrelated crimes may also have been radicalised, he said
- ISIS fighters returning to Europe from Syria are also a concern, he warned today
By Reuters via Daily Mail, 30 October 2019:
Thousands of inmates who are soon to be freed from European prisons may have been radicalised while in jail, the EU’s security chief warned today.
Story continues below advertisementJulian King said there were ‘thousands of such individuals’ who were coming to the end of their prison terms.
Around 1,100 people are being held on terrorism charges, King said, while others who were jailed for unrelated crimes may also have been radicalised.
Returning fighters from Syria are also a concern, the commissioner told a news conference today.
Warning: EU security commissioner Julian King (pictured in Brussels) has warned that thousands of soon-to-be-freed prisoners may have been radicalised while in jail
Security forces in Europe have arrested hundreds of militants amid a wave of deadly attacks since 2015.
‘The jihadi threat has not gone away. There is no way we can lower our guard,’ King said on Wednesday.
‘We face a challenge from those who have been prosecuted and locked up in prison for terrorist offences over recent years coming to the end of their term and being released.
‘There are some thousands of such individuals in our prisons across Europe.’
In addition, around 500 European fighters were detained in Syria after ISIS lost its last patch of territory earlier this year, he said.
He added that up to 1,400 children with at least one EU parent were also in Syria, of whom half are in prison.
Turkey this month launched a military offensive on Syria’s Kurdish-controlled north-east region, where most ISIS militants are locked up.
Some of the militants are currently being repatriated by EU states, but legal challenges have for long delayed operations.
‘Obviously the events in Syria at the moment do not make that any easier,’ King said.
Locked up: The fate of ISIS prisoners in Syria – some of whom are seen in a cell last week – is also a concern for European security forcesThe fate of captured ISIS fighters has been highly controversial in Europe since the terror group’s supposed ‘caliphate’ crumbled to nothing earlier this year.
Security experts have warned it may be difficult to prove criminal charges against hundreds of fighters, meaning dozens or even hundreds of ISIS supporters would walk free in Europe.
Last month the European Union set up a common counter-terrorism register in the hope of making convictions easier.
The new tool could also help prevent new attacks in Europe, as prosecutors will have access to more information on suspects, officials hope.
French jihadists made up the largest contingent of European ISIS recruits, it is believed.
An ISIS cell of French and Belgian fighters previously crossed from Syria into Turkey and launched deadly attacks on Paris and Brussels in 2015 and 2016.
Donald Trump has threatened to ‘drop’ jihadist fighters at the UK border if Britain does not take back its imprisoned terrorists.
The President called his European allies a ‘tremendous disappointment’ in a furious attack just moments after he announced the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Sunday.
The U.S. would not pay for hundreds of jihadists to be held at Guantanamo Bay ‘for the next 50 years,’ Trump warned.
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12 Comments
4 years ago
The U.S. would not pay for hundreds of jihadists to be held at Guantanamo Bay ‘for the next 50 years,’ Trump warned.
These are EU citizens and they are YOUR problem.
They wanted them and now THEY have them. Maybe “rehabilitation” will work. LOL! They have been touting that but I guess that didn’t work. Being in prison, has only hardened them more and made them more devout.
Good luck EU! Enjoy your utopia! Use them for your military. You aren’t paying up for NATO so follow through on having your own miltary.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
For very little cost they could all be guaranteed permanently ‘rehabilitated’ in one day.
4 years ago
Security experts have warned it may be difficult to prove criminal charges against hundreds of fighters, meaning dozens or even hundreds of ISIS supporters would walk free in Europe.
Implementing (Western) European values necessitates civilizational suicide.
Say Canada- who wants to be next in line?
4 years ago
Also take back YOUR European citizens! We don’t want them either. They are YOUR citizens!
Report: Imprisoned Islamic State Jihadis Carrying AIDS, Other Diseases Ask for Return to West
By ROBERT KRAYCHIK
29 Oct 2019
Diseased and wounded Islamic State terrorists under Kurdish custody in Syria are requesting to be returned home to the West, the Agence-France Presse (AFP) reported on Tuesday. Among the aforementioned Islamic terrorists are persons infected with HIV/AIDS and hepatitis, according to the AFP. Some injured terrorists “have “organs spilling out of open wounds,” AFP noted. (Who cares!)
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https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/10/29/report-imprisoned-islamic-state-jihadis-carrying-aids-other-diseases-ask-for-return-to-west/
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
felix, all the ISIS savages should have been summarily executed upon capture or surrender. They had committed appalling crimes, particularly against Christians and Yazidis – and yet they are allowed to live and fight another day! Disgusting and stupid! When in 2016 Nigeria hired a few hundred South African mercenaries to deal with Boko Haram, in 3 1/2 months they did to Boko Haram what the entire Nigerians Army had failed to achieve in six years – and those mercenaries took no prisoners. In skirmishes Boko Haram savages were sort of herded into ‘kill blocks’ where waiting mercenaries wiped them out. That is what should have happened in Syria and Iraq, but the Kurds are Muslims and the U.S. and other Western troops are too wretchedly soft.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Seriously or you have to be kidding
Anybody with an open would so large as to expose organs would be dead from infection in a very short time, especially in that climate and living conditions
4 years ago
Europe seeded its fate, downfall long-ago; sadly, it deserves its ultimate end underfoot of Islam. If Americans remain in a political fog or complacent about their ultimate future or downfall, they had best remove the tools of subjugation and treason provided by the Neo-Leftist-Fascists, the Democrats.
4 years ago
They have fake justice imposing short term sentences and few if any deportations.
4 years ago
Why would Britons wish to be tied to a European Union that is so clueless and inept at protecting itself and its citizens from Islamic savages? What kind of insanity induces all of them – like Canada – to allow ISIS savages and their families to return to European countries? Why were ISIS criminals not summarily executed upon capture for their terrible crimes, particularly against Christians and Yazidis. Has moral impulse and persuasion so departed the Western mind that there is no longer moral outrage against barbarism and criminal conduct? The idiotic West has lost it’s bloody mind, it has not a clue how to fight a war and pulverize the Islamic enemy.
4 years ago
I will ask the immortal question…..What could go wrong ????
4 years ago
Why nor deport for life or get life if they return..
