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Source: (European Council n.d)
As you can see by the graph, the groups that committed the most terrorism in
Europe are ethno-nationalists and separatists followed by non-specified terrorism,
Left-wing and anarchist terrorism, Jihadist and religiously inspired terrorism, Rightwing
and Other. The separatists attacked the most in 2012, where there were 167
attacks committed by them and they completely stopped in 2021.
However in this graph where we can see the terrorism related arrests, we can see
that Jihadists and religiously inspired terrorism are the ones who are arrested more
often than Separatists, even though they are one of the ones who commit the least
terrorism in Europe compared to the separatists and the Ethno-Nationalists. The
most frequent arrests regarding Jihadists was in the year 2016 where there were a
total of 718 arrests throughout the European Union. In 2021, the most frequent
offence leading to an arrest was membership of a terrorist group, followed by
planning or preparing an attack. The rest of the suspects were charged with
financing terrorism, recruitment and incitement to terrorsism. (European Council, n.d)
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