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were some relatively large incidents. One of them is the bombing of cafeteria
Rolando, 13 people were killed and over 70 injured. However, in the last couple
years the frequency of terrorist acts was much lower (Angus, 2014).
(Statista Research Department, 2023).
The European Union had not been so peaceful. Over the years there were some big
cases of terrorism, for example: London bombings in 2005 or 7/7 which took lives of
52 people and injured over 700 of London citizens and the 2015 Paris attacks which
took lives of 130 citizens and left hundreds wounded. One of the factors that led to
such attacks was the open borders of the EU, which made the preparation and
coordination of terrorist attacks several times easier (BBC, 2015; Strom and
Eyerman, n.d.).