How many terrorist attacks did the EU record in 2024?

A full of 58 violent attacks were reported by 14 subordinate states successful 2024. This marks a halving compared to 2023, erstwhile 120 attacks were reported, according to the European Union’s instrumentality enforcement agency, Europol. 

Italy and France recorded the astir attacks, with 20 and 14 incidents, respectively. 

This was followed by Germany, with six recorded attacks, and Austria and Greece, some with 3 incidents.

Almost fractional of the violent attacks successful the EU were attributed to jihadist terrorism, which marks a important summation from 2023.

This benignant of onslaught caused the highest fig of casualties, with 5 radical killed and 18 injured.  

Overall, astir of the attacks targeted civilians, portion the concern assemblage was the second-most targeted.  

The bulk of attacks took spot successful an municipality determination (45), portion 13 were perpetrated successful agrarian areas.

A full of 449 radical were arrested for terrorism-related offences crossed 20 subordinate states, an summation compared to 2023 (426) and 2022 (380).

The bulk of arrests were carried retired successful Spain, France, Italy, and Germany.  

The bulk (405) of arrested suspects were male, portion 43 were female.   

Are young radical being targeted?

The fig of minors and young radical progressive successful violent and convulsive extremist activities continued to turn crossed the EU successful 2024, according to the Europol report.

Almost one-third of the full fig of suspects arrested for terrorism-related offences were aged betwixt 12 and 20 years old.

The youngest arrestee, charged with readying oregon preparing an attack, was 12 years aged and was ascribed to right-wing ideology.

The immense bulk of these young suspects were linked to jihadist terrorism, followed by right-wing coercion and convulsive extremism.

Europol besides reported a surge successful the magnitude of violent and convulsive extremist propaganda connected integer platforms.    

These young perpetrators were predominantly male. Only 12 retired of 133 were female.

"They astir often underwent a process of self-radicalisation online and were acting dissociated to immoderate centralised organisation, often unsocial oregon wrong tiny cells of peers," the study stated.

The operation of intelligence vulnerabilities, societal isolation and integer dependency continues to beryllium instrumental successful the radicalisation of young people.