Documented harms

Terrorism figures, the lived experience of targeted communities, and what legislatures and courts have done about it - each with its measured source.

On camera

Official recordings on this subject, on the publishers' own channels. Each opens at the publisher; nothing is hosted here.

5:57Denmark | 2025-12-18Judgment C-417/23 Slagelse Almennyttige Boligselskab, Afdeling Schackenborgvænge explainedCourt of Justice of the European Union

3:20Europe-wide, Spain | 2025-12-01Europol and Spanish National Police disrupt activities of far-right terrorist group 'The Base'Europol

1:42:10Germany | 2024-08-24Statements von Nancy Faeser, Herbert Reul und Hendrik Wüst zum Anschlag in Solingenphoenix (German public broadcaster, ARD/ZDF)

9:57France | 2023-10-17Replay : conférence de presse du procureur antiterroriste après l'attaques d'Arras | FRANCE 24FRANCE 24 (French public international broadcaster, France Medias Monde)

32:42Europe-wide | 2025-01-16Europol report on terrorism situation and trends in the EUEuropean Parliament

1:24:31Europe-wide, Belgium | 2026-03-11EU Remembrance Day for Victims of Terrorism 2026European Commission, DG Migration and Home Affairs (EU Home Affairs)

48:03France | 2026-10-07L'Intégrale des questions au Gouvernement | 07/10/26LCP - Assemblée nationale (French parliamentary television channel)

Measured in 2025

6 people killed in the 22 completed terrorist attacks in the EU, 2025 Europol TE-SAT 2026, p. 18 81 people injured in jihadist attacks in the EU, 2025 Europol TE-SAT 2026, p. 19 96% of Jewish respondents encountered antisemitism in the previous year FRA survey 2024 76% at least occasionally hide their Jewish identity FRA survey 2024

How the 45 attacks of 2025 were carried out

Stabbing15

Bombing11

Arson7

Shooting5

Damage to property2

Vehicle ramming1

Not specified4

Source: Europol TE-SAT 2026, p. 20

Terrorist attacks in the EU, 202545

24 jihadist21 other

Source: Europol TE-SAT 2026, Key Findings

Terrorism-related arrests, 2025486

347 jihadist139 other

Source: Europol TE-SAT 2026, Key Findings

jihadist other

Children, women and the elderly

Attacks in Europe where a court or a state authority records who the victims were. Ages are given only where the official document gives them.

Manchester Arena, 22 May 2017: the court found the bombers chose a concert to target the young. Almost half of those killed were children or teenagers.

The Queen v Hashem Abedi - Sentencing remarks (Manchester Arena, 22 May 2017)court-judgment2020United Kingdomverbatim quote

Courts and Tribunals Judiciary (England and Wales), Mr Justice Jeremy Baker, Central Criminal Court, August 2020

"it is to be noted that the choice of the Ariana Grande concert as the target for this incident is one in which the defendant and his brother will have readily appreciated the heightened risk of death and serious injury to those who were particularly vulnerable because of their young age. I am satisfied that it was their intention to specifically target this age group; an aim in which they tragically succeeded, as almost half of those killed in the explosion were either children or teenagers."

para. 19, pp. 4-5; victim count para. 14, p. 3 ("22 of whom were killed and over 260 were physically injured"); classification para. 16, p. 4 | verified 2026-10-04

LIMITS, from the same source: Same remarks, para. 16 (p. 4): the motivation was "to advance the ideological cause of Islamism; a matter distinct from and abhorrent to the vast majority of those who follow the Islamic faith." The remarks give no per-victim ages; the Manchester Arena Inquiry was not opened in this round.

Nice, 14 July 2016: 86 people killed on the promenade, 15 of them children.

Commemoration des 10 ans de l'attentat de Nice - discours du President de la Republiquegovernment-statement2026Franceverbatim quote

Presidence de la Republique (France), Emmanuel Macron, Nice, 14 July 2026

"Ce soir-là, 86 vies furent volées. 86. 15 étaient celles d'enfants, vous l'avez rappelé. 450 furent blessés dans leur chair et des milliers d'autres le furent dans leur âme, parfois des années avant que la blessure ne trouve un nom."

English - our translation, unproofreadThat evening, 86 lives were stolen. 86. 15 of them were children's, as you recalled. 450 were wounded in their flesh and thousands of others in their soul, sometimes years before the wound found a name.

speech text (HTML), paragraph 3; classification later in the same speech: "Et à chaque fois, la même idéologie islamiste et le même projet" | verified 2026-10-04

LIMITS, from the same source: Same speech: "Le meurtrier principal n'était plus là pour répondre de ses actes" - the driver was never tried, so no court ruled on his motive; the 2022 special assize court convicted eight others (Musee-Memorial du terrorisme verdict page). The 15-children figure is attributed by the President to a previous speaker ("vous l'avez rappelé"); a victims' association page on the state memorial site gives "environ 500" physically injured against the President's 450.

Munich, 13 February 2025: a car driven into a trade-union march. A child and its mother died; 44 more people were injured.

Verfassungsschutzbericht 2025 - Munich attack of 13 Feb 2025security-service-report2026Germanyverbatim quote

Bundesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz / Bundesministerium des Innern (Germany), June 2026

"Ähnliche Reaktionen rief der Anschlag eines Afghanen auf einen gewerkschaftlichen Demonstrationszug in München (Bayern) am 13. Februar 2025 hervor, bei dem ein Kind und seine Mutter an ihren Verletzungen starben und 44 weitere Personen teils schwer verletzt wurden."

English - our translation, unproofreadSimilar reactions were provoked by the attack by an Afghan on a trade-union demonstration in Munich (Bavaria) on 13 February 2025, in which a child and its mother died of their injuries and 44 further people were injured, some seriously.

printed p. 104 (PDF p. 106), chapter Rechtsextremismus; footnote 58 same page: "Die Ermittlungsbehörden gehen von einem islamistischen Tatmotiv aus. Die Hauptverhandlung im Strafprozess gegen den Angeklagten begann im Januar 2026."; Islamism chapter printed p. 238: "mutmaßlich aus einer islamistischen Motivation heraus" | verified 2026-10-04

LIMITS, from the same source: The passage sits in the right-wing extremism chapter and is about right-wing extremists instrumentalising the attack against migrants in general. The motive is stated as the investigators' assumption ("mutmaßlich"); no verdict as of the report. The child's age is not given.

Villach, 15 February 2025: a 14-year-old killed in what Austria's state security calls an Islamist terrorist attack.

Verfassungsschutzbericht 2025 - Fall VILLACHsecurity-service-report2026Austriaverbatim quote

Direktion Staatsschutz und Nachrichtendienst (DSN), Bundesministerium fuer Inneres (Austria), 2026

"Am späten Nachmittag des 15. Februar 2025 kam es in der Villacher Innenstadt zu einem Terroranschlag, bei dem eine Person getötet und fünf weitere teilweise schwer verletzt wurden."

English - our translation, unproofreadIn the late afternoon of 15 February 2025 a terrorist attack took place in Villach city centre, in which one person was killed and five others injured, some seriously.

printed p. 109 (PDF p. 110), 2.5.3 Faelle 2025; age from footnote 4, printed p. 26: "Bei [...] handelt es sich um jenen 14-jährigen Österreicher, der bei einem islamistischen Terroranschlag in Villach am 15. Februar 2025 getötet wurde." (ellipsis = the boy's first name only) | verified 2026-10-04

LIMITS, from the same source: Same page: the attacker had "keine strukturelle Einbindung in die Terrororganisation" (self-declared IS allegiance only), and he was stopped by "Dem couragierten Eingreifen eines Zeugen - ebenfalls ein syrischer Staatsbürger". Footnote 4 sits in the right-wing chapter, where the victim's death is used by right-wing extremists. Court outcome not opened.

Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, 26 July 2016: the murder of the parish priest Father Jacques Hamel, set by the President of France in a declaration on Islamist terrorism.

Declaration de M. Francois Hollande sur le terrorisme islamiste et sur le dialogue entre les religionsgovernment-statement2017Franceverbatim quote

Presidence de la Republique (France), Francois Hollande, Paris, 5 January 2017

"Et puis en 2016, notre pays a été durement éprouvé : le 14 juillet à Nice mais aussi Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray avec l'odieux assassinat du père Jacques HAMEL qui a bouleversé la France mais qui a aussi permis qu'il y ait une forme de sursaut dont vous avez été à l'origine, je veux ici vous en remercier."

English - our translation, unproofreadAnd then in 2016 our country was severely tested: 14 July in Nice, but also Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray with the odious murder of Father Jacques HAMEL, which shook France but also allowed a kind of awakening that you started, and I want to thank you for it here.

declaration text (HTML); the declaration is titled and opens on "Le terrorisme islamiste" | verified 2026-10-04

LIMITS, from the same source: Same declaration: "La France ne doit pas tomber dans le piège de l'amalgame, de la suspicion, elle doit aussi garantir la liberté de conscience donc la liberté de culte". The priest's age (85, widely reported) is not stated in any official text opened; Macron's 2017 homage (also opened) adds that a parishioner was gravely injured, without age.

Rape and sexual slavery: what courts and the UN found

The Islamic State enslaved Yazidi women and children as policy. Courts in Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands have since convicted members of IS for crimes against them. Each finding below is the court's or the UN's own text, with the limits the same document states.

UN Commission of Inquiry, 2016: ISIS committed genocide against the Yazidis, and the sexual slavery of Yazidi women and girls was organised and controlled by ISIS.

"They came to destroy": ISIS Crimes Against the Yazidis (A/HRC/32/CRP.2)un-commission-of-inquiry2016International (United Nations)verbatim quote

UN Human Rights Council, Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, 15 June 2016 (Advance Version)

"ISIS has committed the crime of genocide as well as multiple crimes against humanity and war crimes against the Yazidis, thousands of whom are held captive in the Syrian Arab Republic where they are subjected to almost unimaginable horrors."

Summary, p. 1; sexual-violence finding para. 54, p. 12: "The sexual violence, including the sexual slavery, being committed against Yazidi women and girls is tightly controlled by ISIS, occurs in a manner prescribed and authorised, and is respectful only of the property rights of those who "own" the women and girls." | verified 2026-10-04

LIMITS, from the same source: Same Summary: the report "focuses on violations committed in Syria, is based on 45 interviews" plus documentary material; it is an Advance Version conference room paper ("Distr.: Restricted", "Reproduced as received") by a commission of inquiry, not a court.

Germany's Federal Court of Justice, 2023: an IS member who bought a Yazidi woman and her five-year-old daughter as slaves is guilty of genocide. Life sentence, final.

Bundesgerichtshof bestaetigt Verurteilung wegen Voelkermordes durch schwere Misshandlung zweier Jesidinnen (Nr. 011/2023)court-judgment2023Germanyverbatim quote

Bundesgerichtshof (Germany), press release of 17 Jan 2023 on Beschluss of 30 Nov 2022, 3 StR 230/22

"Hiernach tragen die Urteilsfeststellungen die Wertung, dass der Angeklagte in der Absicht, die religiöse Gruppe der Jesiden zu zerstören, vorsätzlich dem fünfjährigen Mädchen schwere körperliche Schäden und dessen Mutter schwere seelische Schäden zufügte."

English - our translation, unproofreadAccordingly, the findings support the assessment that the defendant, with intent to destroy the religious group of the Yazidis, deliberately caused serious bodily harm to the five-year-old girl and serious mental harm to her mother.

press release, section 2; facts in section 1 (IS member in Raqqa from March 2015, bought a Yazidi woman and her small daughter as slaves in June 2015) | verified 2026-10-04

LIMITS, from the same source: Same release: the BGH set aside the conviction for aiding the war crime of expulsion and for bodily harm resulting in death ("hat dies hingegen der revisionsrechtlichen Nachprüfung nicht standgehalten"); the life sentence stood. First-instance OLG Frankfurt press release not opened.

Germany's Federal Court of Justice, 2023: a woman who joined IS knowingly furthered its policy of destroying the Yazidi religion and enslaving Yazidi women.

Urteil wegen Verbrechens gegen die Menschlichkeit zum Nachteil zweier Jesidinnen im Strafausspruch weitgehend aufgehoben (Nr. 048/2023)court-judgment2023Germanyverbatim quote

Bundesgerichtshof (Germany), press release of 9 Mar 2023, 3 StR 246/22

"Diese förderte durch ihr Handeln bewusst und gewollt die IS- Politik der Vernichtung der jesidischen Religion und der Versklavung der weiblichen jesidischen Bevölkerung."

English - our translation, unproofreadThrough her actions she knowingly and deliberately furthered the IS policy of destroying the Yazidi religion and enslaving the female Yazidi population.

press release, "Angefochtenes Urteil" section 1 (OLG Muenchen findings, 8 St 9/18, judgment of 25 Oct 2021); victims: "die Nebenklägerin und deren im Kleinkindalter befindliche Tochter"; the five-year-old died | verified 2026-10-04

LIMITS, from the same release: the OLG treated it as a less serious case (minder schwerer Fall), which the BGH found legally wrong; "In dem Zeitpunkt, als die Angeklagte dessen Tod billigend in Kauf nahm, wäre es allerdings nicht mehr zu retten gewesen." The 2023 re-sentencing by OLG Muenchen (reported as 14 years) was not opened; its PM 41/2023 (opened) only lists the retrial dates.

Stockholm District Court, 2025: nine Yazidi women and children were the injured parties. Six were children at the time, one of them a newborn.

Faellande dom i mal om folkmord, brott mot manskligheten och grov krigsforbrytelse (mal B 3210-23)court-judgment2025Swedenverbatim quote

Stockholms tingsratt (Sweden), Sveriges Domstolar, 11 Feb 2025

"Målsägandena i målet är sammanlagt nio kvinnor och barn tillhörande folkgruppen yazidier. Vid den i målet aktuella tiden var sex av målsägandena barn, varav en var nyfödd."

English - our translation, unproofreadThe injured parties in the case are in total nine women and children belonging to the Yazidi ethnic group. At the time relevant to the case, six of the injured parties were children, one of them a newborn.

press release, paragraph 3; IS conduct at paragraph 2: "IS utsatte den yazidiska befolkningen för bl.a. avrättningar, familjeseparationer, slaveri, tvångskonvertering, förföljelse och allvarliga sexuella övergrepp." | verified 2026-10-04

LIMITS, from the same release: the rapes it records were committed by "män anslutna till IS", not by the defendant, whom the release does not name; the penalty value was 16 years but the sentence was set at 12 because of an earlier one.

Svea Court of Appeal, Sweden, November 2025: conviction upheld. She held Yazidi women and children within the slavery system IS introduced.

Hovratten andrar inte tingsrattens dom rorande en 53-arig kvinna domd for folkmord, brott mot manskligheten och grov krigsforbrytelse (mal B 2104-25)court-judgment2025Swedenverbatim quote

Svea hovratt (Sweden), Sveriges Domstolar, 11 Nov 2025

"Hovrätten anser precis som tingsrätten att åklagaren har visat att den åtalade kvinnan har hållit ett flertal yazidiska kvinnor och barn frihetsberövade och bl.a. tvingat flera av dem att utföra sysslor i hemmet, delta i religiös undervisning samt att be - allt inom ramen för det slaverisystem som införts av IS."

English - our translation, unproofreadThe Court of Appeal, like the district court, finds that the prosecutor has shown that the accused woman held a number of Yazidi women and children deprived of liberty and, among other things, forced several of them to do household chores, take part in religious instruction and pray - all within the slavery system introduced by IS.

press release, statement of hovrattsradet Robert Green | verified 2026-10-04

LIMITS, from the same source: Same statement: she shared IS's aim "även om hon inte omedelbart har deltagit vid IS våldsdåd mot yazidierna" (even though she did not directly take part in IS acts of violence against the Yazidis). Unanimous; 12 years upheld.

The Hague Court of Appeal, March 2026: a woman who joined IS made an enslaved Yazidi woman work for her - slavery, a crime against humanity.

Gevangenisstraf voor misdrijven in Syrie (ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2026:462)court-judgment2026Netherlandsverbatim quote

Gerechtshof Den Haag (Netherlands), de Rechtspraak, 25 Mar 2026

"Tijdens haar verblijf in Syrië liet de vrouw samen met een ander ongeveer een maand lang een door IS tot slaaf gemaakte jezidivrouw huishoudelijke taken voor haar verrichten. Het hof acht, net als de rechtbank, bewezen dat de vrouw zich daarmee schuldig heeft gemaakt aan het medeplegen van slavernij. Dat is een misdrijf tegen de menselijkheid."

English - our translation, unproofreadDuring her stay in Syria the woman, together with another person, made a Yazidi woman enslaved by IS perform household tasks for her for about a month. The court of appeal, like the district court, finds it proven that the woman is thereby guilty of co-perpetrating slavery. That is a crime against humanity.

press release, section "Misdrijf tegen menselijkheid slavernij" (a glossary tooltip after "rechtbank" in the HTML is not part of the sentence) | verified 2026-10-04

LIMITS, from the same release: 9 years, lower than first instance, "rekening gehouden met de verminderde toerekeningsvatbaarheid van de vrouw" (diminished responsibility); EUR 15,000 compensation awarded to the Yazidi woman.

United Nations, March 2024: reasonable grounds to believe that rape and gang rape occurred during the 7 October attacks. The report does not attribute the acts to a named group.

Mission report: Official visit of the Office of the SRSG-SVC to Israel and the occupied West Bank, 29 January - 14 February 2024un-report2024International (United Nations)verbatim quote

UN Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict (Pramila Patten), 4 March 2024

"Based on the information gathered by the mission team from multiple and independent sources, there are reasonable grounds to believe that conflict-related sexual violence occurred during the 7 October attacks in multiple locations across Gaza periphery, including rape and gang rape, in at least three locations."

para. 12, p. 4; hostages para. 17, p. 5: "clear and convincing information that some have been subjected to various forms of conflict-related sexual violence" | verified 2026-10-04

LIMITS, from the same source: Para. 25 (p. 8): "The mission was not intended to be, and is not a substitute for, an investigation". Para. 78 (p. 20): "Given the mission was not investigative, it did not gather information and/or draw conclusions on attribution of alleged violations to specific armed groups"; Hamas denied the claims. Para. 19: prevalence not established. Para. 18: West Bank stakeholders raised sexual-violence concerns about Israeli security forces and settlers.

Not counted here, and why

Two attacks that this archive does not count as Islamist terrorism, and the official reason why.

Aschaffenburg, 22 January 2025 - not counted here: the court found the motive was paranoid schizophrenia.

Verfassungsschutzbericht 2025 - Aschaffenburg knife attack, footnote 56 (EXCLUDED: not classified as terrorism)security-service-report2026Germanyverbatim quote

Bundesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz / Bundesministerium des Innern (Germany), June 2026

"Ein zum Tatzeitpunkt 28-jähriger ausreisepflichtiger Afghane griff mehrere Menschen mit einem Messer in einem Park an. Als Tatmotiv stellte das Landgericht Aschaffenburg eine paranoide Schizophrenie fest."

English - our translation, unproofreadA 28-year-old Afghan, obliged to leave the country at the time of the act, attacked several people with a knife in a park. The Aschaffenburg Regional Court found paranoid schizophrenia to be the motive.

printed p. 103 (PDF p. 105), footnote 56; main text calls it "dem vermeintlich islamistisch motivierten Messerangriff am 22. Januar 2025 in Aschaffenburg (Bayern) mit zwei Toten und drei zum Teil schwer Verletzten" | verified 2026-10-04

LIMITS, from the same source: This row is itself the counter-evidence: the BfV calls the Islamist motive "vermeintlich" (supposed) and records the court's finding of mental illness. It must not be counted among Islamist attacks.

Southport, 29 July 2024 - not counted here: the prosecution and the judge found no political, religious, racial or ideological cause.

R v Axel Rudakubana - Sentencing note, Liverpool Crown Court, 23 Jan 2025 (EXCLUDED: not terrorism in law)court-judgment2025United Kingdomverbatim quote

Courts and Tribunals Judiciary (England and Wales), Mr Justice Goose

"The prosecution have made it clear that these proceedings were not acts of terrorism within the meaning of the terrorism legislation, because there is no evidence that Rudakubana's purpose was to advance a political, religious, racial or ideological cause. I must accept that conclusion."

para. 26, p. 6; victims aged 7, 6 and 9 killed (paras. 7-9), eight further children aged 7-13 injured (paras. 10-17) | verified 2026-10-04

LIMITS, from the same source: Same paragraph: the judge holds his culpability "equivalent in its seriousness to terrorist murders, whatever his purpose". The CPS plea release (opened) records he also admitted possessing an Al-Qaeda training manual as a terrorist document - a terrorism offence, but not an Islamist motive for the killings.

Europol's TE-SAT is the EU's consolidated annual measurement of terrorism. The EU Fundamental Rights Agency measures what Jewish communities in Europe experience. Denmark legislated against what its law formally terms "parallel societies" - and in December 2025 the Court of Justice of the EU ruled that the law's ethnic-origin criterion can constitute direct discrimination.

This archive cites both. The law shows a European legislature naming the problem; the judgment shows the legal limits of that response.

Of the 213 threat reports under the remit of Belgium's threat-assessment service in 2024, "Jewish and the Israeli interests were the main target, followed by specific persons". The same report names right-wing extremism as the second-largest category, and records left-wing extremist activity rising over the same conflict.

Verified sources - documented harms

European Union Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2026 (EU TE-SAT)eu-agency-report2026Europe-wideverbatim quote

Europol - Publications Office of the European Union

"In 2025, 45 terrorist attacks were reported by 10 Member States, while 486 suspects were arrested for terrorism-related offences across 21 Member States. Jihadism accounted for 24 of the reported attacks and 347 of the reported arrests."

Key Findings | verified 2026-08-05

Jewish People's Experiences and Perceptions of Antisemitism (third survey)eu-agency-report2024Europe-wideour summary

EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, 11 July 2024 (fieldwork 2023, ~8,000 respondents, 13 EU countries)

96% of respondents encountered antisemitism in the year before the survey; 76% at least occasionally hide their Jewish identity.Summarised by this archive, not quoted. Open the source to read its own words.

key findings | verified 2026-08-05

Judgment C-417/23, Slagelse Almennyttige Boligselskabcourt-judgment2025Denmarkour summary

Court of Justice of the European Union, 18 December 2025 (EUR-Lex CELEX 62023CJ0417)

Under Article 2(2)(a) of Directive 2000/43/EC, the Danish criterion targeting areas where 'immigrants from non-Western countries and their descendants' exceed 50% can constitute direct discrimination based on ethnic origin.Summarised by this archive, not quoted. Open the source to read its own words.

operative part | verified 2026-08-05

Must be cited alongside any mention of the Danish parallel-societies legislation.

French Memorials - RER Saint-Michel, 25 July 1995state-memorial-institution1995Franceverbatim quote

Musée-Mémorial du terrorisme (GIP-MMT), French state public-interest grouping

"RER Saint-Michel, July 25, 1995, 8 dead and 200 wounded"

French Memorials, plaques prior to 2015 | verified 2026-08-06

The event this archive is named for. A commemorative plaque bearing the victims' names stands on the RER B platform.

CUTA Annual Report 2024security-service-report2024Belgiumverbatim quote

CUTA - Coordination Unit for Threat Assessment (Belgium), under the Ministers of Justice and the Interior; preface by Gert Vercauteren, Acting Director

"Throughout the year 2024, the general threat level 3 (serious) was in effect in Belgium. [...] In the course of 2024, CUTA received 287 threat reports. [...] After analysis it appeared that 213 of these 287 threat reports fell under CUTA's remit (radicalisation, extremism, terrorism). Jewish and the Israeli interests were the main target, followed by specific persons."

"1.1 General threat in Belgium in 2024", p. 4 | verified 2026-08-14

The main threat continued to come from the Islamist sphere (IS/ISKP and al-Qaeda). Right-wing extremism was Belgium's second-largest category in the report's threat database, and left-wing extremist threat activity rose over the Gaza conflict. Both are recorded here as counter-evidence, as Sweden's lowered threat level is elsewhere.

Relazione sulla politica dell'informazione per la sicurezza (Anno 2024) - Doc. XXXIII n. 3government-review2025Italyverbatim quote

Sistema di Informazione per la Sicurezza della Repubblica (DIS), Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, Italy - presented by Sottosegretario Alfredo Mantovano; transmitted to Parliament 28 February 2025

"Il terrorismo jihadista ha tratto nuova linfa dallo scoppio del conflitto tra Israele e Hamas e dall'effetto domino che ne è derivato. Tramite una propaganda costruita ad arte, al Qaida e DAESH hanno sfruttato la crisi mediorientale per ispirare soprattutto i giovani [...] a compiere attacchi. In questo deve essere letto il raddoppio degli attentati compiuti in Europa nel 2024, raddoppiati rispetto al 2023."

"Il terrorismo jihadista", p. 14 (printed header pagination; internal p. 10) | verified 2026-08-13

Italy's intelligence service states, unprompted, the conflict-as-recruitment-engine thesis this archive documents elsewhere, in its annual report to Parliament. It also names ISKP as the principal vector of the global jihadist threat in 2024, and the same chapter records the 31 May 2024 anti-Islam Pax Europa attack in Mannheim, Germany. The 2026 edition (row it-dis-relazione-2026) words the Gaza point more cautiously: appeals circulated in jihadist propaganda, not a count of attacks.

Sicherheit Schweiz 2026 - Lagebericht des Nachrichtendienstes des Bundessecurity-service-report2026Switzerlandverbatim quote

NDB - Nachrichtendienst des Bundes (Federal Intelligence Service, Switzerland), VBS/DDPS

"Die Terrorbedrohung in der Schweiz ist erhöht, das heisst, es liegen Hinweise auf terroristische Akteure in der Schweiz und/oder terroristische Absichten gegen die Schweiz vor. Die Bedrohung wird weiterhin primär von der dschihadistischen Bewegung geprägt, vor allem durch Personen, die mit dem "Islamischen Staat" sympathisieren oder von Dschihadpropaganda inspiriert werden."

"Terrorbedrohung in der Schweiz und in Europa", p. 36 | verified 2026-08-15

This row cuts against part of this archive's own recruitment pillar, and is published for that reason. The NDB states: "Der Nahostkonflikt stellt auch nach dem terroristischen Grossangriff der Hamas vom 7. Oktober 2023 bei dschihadistisch radikalisierten Personen in der Schweiz und in Europa kein Leitmotiv dar. Er befeuert aber antisemitische Aktionen, die im Ausland vereinzelt auch in dschihadistische Gewaltakte mündeten" - naming the 2 October 2025 attack on a Jewish community in Manchester and the 14 December 2025 attack on a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. The same report finds ideology receding as a driver: among suspects "zusehends Gewaltfaszination oder persönliche beziehungsweise psychische Probleme zentrale Treiber werden, während ideologische Beweggründe weniger wichtig sind", and in Europe an initial suspicion of terrorism proves "immer öfter als falsch". On the other scenes it reports that publicly visible violence comes predominantly from the violent left-extremist scene, and that neither violent extremist scene measurably weakens democracy or the principles of the rule of law.

Threat level increase following antisemitic terror attackgovernment-statement2026United Kingdomverbatim quote

Home Office (United Kingdom), news story of 30 April 2026

"The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC) has today (30 April 2026) raised the UK national threat level from substantial, meaning an attack is likely, to severe, meaning an attack is highly likely in the next 6 months."

first paragraph of the body | verified 2026-10-04

The same page ties the rise to both Islamist and extreme right-wing threats, and not solely to the Golders Green attack. The Security Minister's statement of 14 May 2026 (also opened) adds a conviction in a white-supremacist plot. The UK level after that date is unverified (MI5 page blocked).

Relazione sulla politica dell'informazione per la sicurezza (Anno 2025) - Doc. XXXIII n. 4government-review2026Italyverbatim quote

"Con riferimento alla crisi di Gaza, nel 2025 sono stati numerosi gli appelli veicolati tramite la propaganda jihadista a condurre attacchi in Europa, specialmente contro quartieri ebraici e ambasciate 'ebraiche e crociate'."

English - our translation, unproofreadWith reference to the Gaza crisis, in 2025 there were numerous calls, conveyed through jihadist propaganda, to carry out attacks in Europe, especially against Jewish neighbourhoods and 'Jewish and crusader' embassies.

ch. 7 "Crisi internazionali e minaccia terroristica", printed p. 103 (PDF p. 115) | verified 2026-10-04

The 2026 edition is more hedged than the 2025 one the register quotes: in the pages read it speaks of appeals circulated in jihadist propaganda, not of a count of attacks, and frames the crises as one of several overlapping radicalisation factors. The same page (our summary) names the Manchester (Heaton Park) and Bondi Beach attacks as terrorist attacks with a clear antisemitic matrix, and names DAESH, Al-Qa'ida, ISKP and AQIS on p. 104. 'Fratellanza/Fratelli musulmani' returns 0 hits in the (partly garbled) text layer (control: 'jihad' 22 hits). Only printed pp. 101-104 were read; other chapters (domestic extremism) were not.

Anklage im Zusammenhang mit Waffenbeschaffungen für die ausländische terroristische Vereinigung HAMAS erhobenprosecutor-press-release2026Germany | Austriaverbatim quote

Der Generalbundesanwalt beim Bundesgerichtshof (Germany), press release of 11 Sep 2026 (indictment filed 8 Sep 2026 before the Staatsschutzsenat of the Kammergericht Berlin)

"In der Anklageschrift ist im Wesentlichen folgender Sachverhalt dargelegt: Alle Angeschuldigten gehören der ausländischen terroristischen Vereinigung HAMAS an. Bereits vor längerer Zeit begann der militärische Flügel der Organisation (die sogenannten Qassam-Brigaden), Waffendepots in Europa anzulegen. Spätestens seit Juli 2025 plante die HAMAS einen konkreten Mordanschlag in Deutschland oder Österreich gegen Repräsentanten Israels, Menschen jüdischen Glaubens oder pro-israelisch eingestellte Personen."

English - our translation, unproofreadThe indictment sets out, in essence, the following facts: All the accused belong to the foreign terrorist organisation HAMAS. Some time ago, the military wing of the organisation (the so-called Qassam Brigades) began to set up weapons depots in Europe. Since July 2025 at the latest, HAMAS was planning a concrete murder attack in Germany or Austria against representatives of Israel, people of Jewish faith or pro-Israeli individuals.

press release, paragraph beginning "In der Anklageschrift ..." | verified 2026-10-04

An indictment is an allegation, not a finding: the same release says the accused are 'hinreichend verdächtig' and in pre-trial detention; no trial or verdict yet. The release concerns Hamas (an EU-listed organisation) and does not mention the Muslim Brotherhood. One further person is prosecuted separately and, per the release, had not been transferred to Germany. Defendants are deliberately not named here.

Bekendtgørelse af lov om almene boliger m.v. (Lovtidende A, nr. 207 of 25 January 2026), § 61 alegislation2026Denmarkverbatim quote

Social- og Boligministeriet / Lovtidende (Denmark); Retsinformation

"Ved et parallelsamfund forstås et boligområde, hvor andelen af indvandrere og efterkommere fra ikkevestlige lande overstiger 50 pct., og hvor mindst to af kriterierne i stk. 1 er opfyldt."

English - our translation, unproofreadA parallel society is understood as a residential area where the share of immigrants and descendants from non-Western countries exceeds 50 per cent, and where at least two of the criteria in subsection 1 are met.

§ 61 a, stk. 2 (PDF p. 19 of 60) | verified 2026-10-04

Must be cited with CJEU C-417/23 (Grand Chamber, 18 Dec 2025, row cjeu-c417-23): the Court held a criterion of this kind can constitute direct discrimination on ethnic origin. The consolidation post-dates the judgment by 38 days and still carries the criterion; whether an amendment followed is not checked. The 2018 bill row (dk-parallel-societies-law) uses the earlier term 'ghettoområde'.

Memoria de la Fiscalia General del Estado (2026, ejercicio 2025) - Fiscalia de la Audiencia Nacional, 4.9.1 Terrorismogovernment-review2026Spainverbatim quote

Fiscalia General del Estado, Spain - chapter of the Fiscalia de la Audiencia Nacional; figures supplied by the Ministerio del Interior as of 25.02.2026

"La ausencia de atentados con víctimas mortales en territorio nacional durante 2025 ratifica la excelencia operativa de los servicios de inteligencia y seguridad, así como la solvencia del control judicial preventivo (solo se ha producido en Madrid un ataque con arma blanca investigado como terrorismo yihadista, dejando varios heridos leves)."

English - our translation, unproofreadThe absence of attacks with fatalities on national territory during 2025 confirms the operational excellence of the intelligence and security services, as well as the soundness of preventive judicial control (there was only one knife attack, in Madrid, investigated as jihadist terrorism, leaving several people slightly injured).

Chapter II, 4.9.1 Terrorismo, printed p. 495; tables printed pp. 496-497 | verified 2026-10-04

Tables, printed pp. 496-497 (Ministerio del Interior data as of 25.02.2026): jihadist terrorism detainees in Spain 78 in 2023, 81 in 2024 and 100 in 2025, from 64 operations; 13 more detained abroad in Spanish operations; 13 detainees from other terrorist groups in 2025. The record year remains 2004 (131). The table warns that figures may differ from earlier editions. Agrees with Europol (row europol-tesat-2026: 100 jihadist arrests and one jihadist attack in Spain in 2025). LIMITS: a research yearbook relayed by the National Security Department on 28 Feb 2026 counts 58 operations, not 64, with the same 100 detainees.

Interior coordina el plan especial de seguridad diseñado para garantizar el normal desarrollo de la visita a España del papa León XIVgovernment-statement2026Spainverbatim quote

La Moncloa (Presidencia del Gobierno), Interior press note, 4 May 2026

"En estos tres momentos, el plan especial de seguridad se encontrará establecido en su máximo nivel de activación, así como los planes de autoprotección y emergencias, todo ello en coordinación con el Nivel de Alerta del Plan de Prevención, Protección y Respuesta Antiterrorista (en la actualidad, nivel 4 reforzado), al objeto de garantizar la seguridad integral de toda la visita."

English - our translation, unproofreadAt these three moments the special security plan will be at its maximum level of activation, as will the self-protection and emergency plans, all in coordination with the Alert Level of the Anti-Terrorist Prevention, Protection and Response Plan (currently level 4, reinforced), in order to guarantee the comprehensive security of the whole visit.

press note, body | verified 2026-10-04

The Interior Ministry's antiterrorist alert level: 4 on a five-point scale (1 low, 2 moderate, 3 medium, 4 high, 5 very high, as set out by the National Security Department in 2016), reinforced. Spain's National Security Report for 2025 (row es-dsn-iasn-2025-terrorismo) records the same level for the whole of 2025. LIMITS: a level is a standing posture that has not changed in over ten years; it is not a measure of incidents. The Interior Ministry's own alert-level page could not be opened (it blocks automated reading); this press note is the latest official wording found.

Memoria de la Fiscalia General del Estado (2026, ejercicio 2025) - 10. Delitos de odio y discriminacion (Torre Pacheco)government-review2026Spainverbatim quote

Fiscalia General del Estado, Spain - Fiscal de Sala coordinator for hate crimes and discrimination

"En el año 2025 hemos asistido con gran preocupación a los graves acontecimientos ocurridos en Torre Pacheco durante el mes de julio de 2025, que evidenciaron las peligrosas consecuencias y efectos del discurso de odio difundido de forma masiva e incontrolada en redes sociales, lo que ha motivado la apertura de diversas diligencias de investigación y procedimientos judiciales, principalmente en la Región de Murcia. [...] en las que se encuentra investigado el presunto fundador del grupo Deport Them Now , movimiento de carácter supremacista, antiinmigración y antislámico, que promociona la adopción de políticas migratorias centradas en la identificación y deportación inmediata de los inmigrantes en situación irregular y que, a través de canales de Telegram, Instagram y X, presuntamente emitió un comunicado para llevar a cabo una "cacería" en la localidad de Torre Pacheco contra la población magrebí."

English - our translation, unproofreadIn 2025 we witnessed with great concern the serious events in Torre Pacheco during July 2025, which showed the dangerous consequences and effects of hate speech spread massively and uncontrollably on social networks, which has led to the opening of various investigative proceedings and judicial proceedings, mainly in the Region of Murcia. [...] in which the alleged founder of the group Deport Them Now is under investigation, a movement of supremacist, anti-immigration and anti-Islamic character, which promotes the adoption of migration policies centred on the identification and immediate deportation of immigrants in an irregular situation and which, through Telegram, Instagram and X channels, allegedly issued a statement calling for a 'hunt' in the town of Torre Pacheco against the Maghrebi population.

Chapter III, 10.6 (hate crimes, case-law and notable proceedings) | verified 2026-10-04

COUNTER-EVIDENCE (other extremist categories), in the prosecutor's own text. The July 2025 violence in Torre Pacheco, Murcia, is recorded as hate crime spread on social networks. The same section lists a group assault with xenophobic insults on a man of Maghrebi origin, people wrongly identified online as the attackers of a local resident, a hooded group's raid on a kebab shop, and an assault on a minor wrongly identified as one of the attackers. LIMITS: "presunto" throughout - investigations, not convictions. No official source opened links these events to jihadism.

Operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequent legislation: Arrests, outcomes, and stop and search, Great Britain, to June 2026government-statistics2026United Kingdomverbatim quote

Home Office (United Kingdom)

"The total number of 275 persons in custody for terrorism and terrorism-connected offences in Great Britain as at 30 June 2026 represents a 7% increase year-on-year, rising from 257 persons as at 30 June 2025. While the number of terrorist prisoners categorised as holding Islamist-extremist views remained unchanged at 157 compared to the year ending June 2025, increases among those categorised as holding extreme right-wing and other ideologies resulted in an overall rise in the terrorist prisoner population."

Statistics release published 8 October 2026, section 4.1 "Persons in custody", first two sentences | verified 2026-10-11

LIMITS: the ideology figures cover prisoners only and are a prison-service categorisation ("categorised as holding"); the release gives no ideology breakdown for arrests. The same release says the share categorised as holding Islamist-extremist views "decreased from 70% to 57%" since the year ending June 2021, while the extreme right-wing share rose from 22% to 29%. Of 3,867 terrorism-related arrests in the year, 3,630 were "linked to supporting Palestine Action, following its proscription on 5 July 2025", so the arrest total says nothing about Islamist activity. The figures are provisional and "likely to be revised". The release also breaks its figures down by personal characteristics; this archive does not use those breakdowns, because its subject is organisations and ideology, not populations. It follows the release for the year ending March 2026, which is also in this register (gb-homeoffice-tact-arrests-ye-mar-2026).

Counter-terrorism disruptive powers report 2025government-review2026United Kingdomverbatim quote

Home Office (United Kingdom); published 14 October 2026

"The terrorist threat we see today is more diverse and more complex. Threats can come from a wide range of places and ideologies. In the UK and overseas, the threat from Islamist terrorism is the most prevalent and dangerous, but other threats, including extreme right-wing terrorists, threat from hostile states, and related challenges from violence-fixated individuals are of significant concern."

Section 1, Introduction, second paragraph (printed page 3; page 6 of the accessible PDF) | verified 2026-10-18

LIMITS: a government assessment, not a court finding, and the same sentence names extreme right-wing terrorism, hostile states and violence-fixated individuals as significant concerns. The report covers 2025: of 3,034 terrorism-related arrests, 2,779 (92%) were linked to supporting Palestine Action after its proscription on 5 July 2025 (255 once those are removed), so arrests do not measure Islamist activity, and no ideology breakdown of arrests is given. The ideology figures it does give are for persons in custody at 31 December 2025: 155 (58%) held Islamist extremist views, 77 (29%) extreme right-wing views and 35 (13%) other ideologies. The three organisations proscribed in 2025 (Palestine Action, Maniacs Murder Cult, Russian Imperial Movement) are not Islamist. The report says there are limits on how much can be said publicly about certain sensitive techniques. Threat level at publication: SEVERE.

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