Arrests in 2017 per EU Member State and per affiliation
(disclaimer: only showing the totals, because it's too time consuming to recreate the full table here)
Member State Jihadist Left-wing Separatist Right-wing Not specified Total
Total 705 36 30 20 428 1219
A total of 1219 persons were arrested on suspicion of being involved in terrorism-related activities. Most arrestees (638) were male, against 123 female. The most frequent offences were 1) membership of a terrorist group and 2) planning and/ or preparing a terrorist act.
A total number of 705 persons were arrested on suspicion of offences related to jihadist terrorism, similarly to 2016 (718) and 2015 (687). Most arrests occurred in France (373), Spain (78) and Germany (52).
Arrests for jihadist terrorism continued to represent the largest proportion of the total arrests for terrorism-related offences in the EU.
The percentage of women arrested on suspicion of offences related to jihadist terrorism decreased from 26% in 2016 to 16%. The majority of arrested women (64%) held the citizenship of an EU Member State and were born in the EU. The average age of the suspects in jihadism- related arrests is 29 years, similar to 2016.
EU Member State authorities arrested 36 people related to left-wing and anarchist terrorism in 2017 (54 in 2014, 67 in 2015, 31 in 2016), most of them in France, Greece and Italy. For the second consecutive year, the number of arrests related to left-wing and anarchist terrorism continued to decrease.
The number of individuals arrested in relation to right- wing terrorist offences almost doubled in 2017 (from 11 in 2015 and 12 in 2016 to 20 in 2017). The vast majority of them (15) were reported by France. The individuals arrested with right-wing affiliation were mostly suspected of preparing a terrorist act.
https://www.europol.europa.eu/activities-services/main-reports/eu-terrorism-situation-and-trend-report
https://www.europol.europa.eu/activi...018-tesat-2018 Page 55
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