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UK home to up to 25,000 Islamist extremists who could pose threat, EU official warns
Number is the highest known figure in Europe, amid concern over 'known' extremists launching recent attacks

UK home to up to 25,000 Islamist extremists who could pose threat, EU official warns | The Independent

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The UK is home to up to 25,000 Islamist extremists who could pose a threat, the EU’s top terror official has warned.

Officials have warned that the threat from home-grown jihadis who are prevented from joining Isis in Syria and Iraq is increasing, with the group inciting global terror attacks to maintain momentum.

Gilles de Kerchove, the EU’s counter-terror coordinator, said he expected more atrocities following the deadly car rammings in Barcelona and Cambrils.

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“We are going to suffer more attacks,” he told Spain’s El Mundo newspaper.

“The majority, except Brussels and Paris, were not directed from Raqqa but inspired, and then Isis claimed responsibility.

“The group’s propaganda no longer calls so much for people to travel to the ‘caliphate’, but to launch attacks in their places of origin or of residence, even on a small scale with homemade weapons.”

Mr de Kerchove said the UK was home to the highest known number of Islamist radicals in Europe – between 20,000 and 25,000 people – with 3,000 considered a direct threat by MI5 and 500 under constant surveillance.


Among those known to security services but not considered an imminent danger were the perpetrators of the three Isis-linked terror attacks that have killed 35 victims in Britain this year.

Westminster attacker Khalid Masood was described a “peripheral figure” by Theresa May, while the Manchester bomber Salman Abedi was known to MI5 but not under active investigation and the ringleader of the London Bridge attack, Khuram Butt, was not thought to be a risk despite being a known member of Anjem Choudary’s banned network.

Raffaello Pantucci, the director of International Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) said it was concerning that people from the “wider pool” of extremists were launching attacks.

“They’re becoming very isolated - they’re not talking to people about what they’re doing,” he told The Independent.

“The flash to bang is really short. They decide to do something and a week later they do it.

“And people aren’t necessarily using bombs, they’re using knives and cars and everyday items…so where is the trigger to escalate attention from the security services?”

Mr de Kerchove acknowledged the difficulty in determining the difference between a non-violent extremist and someone who could launch an attack.

He said there was a “grey area” between radicalism and terrorism, adding: “Being radical is not a crime. Being orthodox, aggressive towards the West in your rhetoric is not a crime.

and so it goes Inch Hailer