Austria: Islamic Extremism Is Still Number One Terror Threat by Chris Tomlinson for Breitbart
An Austrian intelligence report states that radical Islamic terrorism is still the number one security issue in the country, with returning Islamic State fighters a chief concern.
The report, which comes from the Austrian Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BVT), states that returnees from the Middle East are difficult to predict in their actions and pose a danger due to possibly having combat experience acquired overseas, Kronen Zeitung reports.
By the end of last year, the BVT estimates that at least 320 individuals from Austria travelled to fight for radical Islamic terror groups in Syria or Iraq, with 107 likely to have been killed and 93 having returned.
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The agency is said to be deploying new methods to tackle the threats posed by radical extremism and laid out a new plan in October of last year based on the prevention of terror attacks and deradicalisation of current extremists.
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Far-left extremist criminal cases saw a decline in 2018, down 35.1 per cent compared to 2017 despite a rise in general far-left activity in the latter part of the year.
Far-right extremist cases saw a very slight increase from 2017 but are still dramatically down compared to 2016.
The BVT complained that the anti-mass migration Identitarian youth movement in Austria was the largest organisation protesting both mass migration and Islamisation, connecting it with xenophobia.
