European prisons have become ‘breeding grounds’ for extremist movements, a report by a UK think tank said, adding that in jails, jihadists are able to find plenty of “angry young men” who are “ripe” for radicalization.
The report titled “Criminal Pasts, Terrorist Futures: European Jihadists and the New Crime-Terror Nexus” by London-based International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR) was released on Tuesday.
The authors of the report said they made a database containing the profiles of “79 recent European jihadists with criminal pasts.” – READ MORE