FINALLY the EU introduces laws to punish homegrown jihadis after HUNDREDS of terror plots
AFTER 211 terror attacks, and foiled attempts to commit mass murder, the EU has finally decided on measures to ‘respond to the evolving terrorist threat’ in Europe.
By ZOIE O’BRIEN
Express.co.uk
Wed, Mar 8, 2017
In 2015 alone 151 people died and over 360 were injured across six EU countries – and two years on – Brussels has come up with an answer.
New rules adopted by the Council of the EU’s Parliament will mean all member states have to criminalise certain acts.
These include travelling to join a terror group, helping to organise travel for someone meeting a terror group, training to commit terror or raising funds for attackers.
Despite such acts being illegal already in some member states, including Britain, the EU is insisting bringing it into line will stop attacks.
UK terrorism laws currently state that belonging to any of the identified terrorist organisations, such as al-Qaeda or ISIS or the IRA, or appearing to support them, is illegal.
Five Syrian terror organisations, including ISIS, the al-Qaida affiliate behind the current insurgency in Iraq, were listed to be banned in Britain in 2014.
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