Terrorist threats in Europe

Danish politics during an effort in 2022. Sergei Grits / AP  

Terrorist threats in Europe  

New tendencies characterize the terrorist threat against Denmark  

The terrorist threat against Denmark remains serious and remains at the second highest level on a five-point scale. This is confirmed by the Danish security police and the Center for Terror Analysis (CTA) in their annual report, reports DR.  

The main threat is judged to come from militant Islamism, but the threats are also characterized by new tendencies, according to the report. Among other things, "anti-authority extremists" are singled out as a new threatening group. It is about people who feel hatred towards authorities and elected officials, something that grew during the corona pandemic.  

Also what is called hybridization is becoming more and more common. This means that people pick up fragments of a number of different extreme ideologies and therefore cannot be placed in a particular compartment.  

Belgian police. Virginia Mayo / AP  

Terrorist threats in Europe  

Eight arrested in Belgium - believed to have planned terrorist acts  

In Belgium, at least eight people have been arrested by police in an anti-terror operation. According to information to the media company FTBF, they must have prepared a terrorist attack. Five people were arrested in Brussels and three in Antwerp.  

Some of those arrested are already known as radical Islamists and have been on the police's radar, writes the Brussels Times.  

The arrests come just one week after the anniversary of the major terrorist attack in central Brussels in 2016. 

Belfast in Northern Ireland. Wiktor Nummelin/TT  

The turmoil in Northern Ireland  

MI5 raises terror threat level in Northern Ireland to 'severe'  

The British security service MI5 has raised the terror threat level in Northern Ireland to "severe", reports the BBC. The increase means that the risk of an attack is now considered very likely.  

The increase is made after what is described as increased activity within Republican circles, including after a police officer was shot earlier this year.