There is a serious problem of jihadi minors in Europe

Following an attack on a Jewish man by a suspected 15-year-old Islamic State jihadist in Zurich on Saturday night, News breaks and minors are also protagonists in Belgium. According to multiple media outlets, federal police arrested four people this morning in Nieuws, Brussels, Charleroi and Liège as part of a terrorism investigation in the jihadist environment. “All four planned the attack,” federal prosecutors said.

The operation was carried out amid heavy security measures as special units raided four different addresses across the country in the early morning. They were searching for four people who were connected over the internet and were planning a terrorist attack. This is an 18-year-old adult from Liège, and three minors from Ninov, Brussels and Charleroi. All four are French speaking. From his conversation there, it can be inferred that he has become radicalized. Apparently, he also talked about the Islamic State, among other things.

“He is suspected of participating in a terrorist group and preparing an attack,” said Eric Van der Sypt of the federal prosecutor’s office., No weapons or explosives were found during the search. “It had not yet been determined what the purpose of that attack would be. But we prefer to intervene in a situation like this,” the federal prosecutor’s office said. “It’s better late than never.” The wanted man in Ninov is a 15-year-old boy who came to live in the city last summer. His The house was searched, but he was eventually arrested in Brussels.

Europe has a problem with minors who become radicalized through the Islamic State’s networks, that is a fact. Last January, the National Police arrested a minor in the Sevillian town of Montellano, who had already successfully tested a bomb that he had made thanks to a manual from the jihadist gang. It was composed of TATP explosive (known as “Devil’s Mother”) and shrapnel. From everything it appears that his intention was to commit a massacre at his school.

Notably, on January 21, he was tracked down by agents of the General Information Commissionerate (CGI) when he left home wearing loose black clothes, carrying a bag, despite the heat being in the region. At a certain point, loud explosions were heard, “which confirmed that the minor may have been testing how the explosives he possessed worked.” From that moment on, the operation that was underway intensified and he was arrested, as well as his mother; And house registration. By mid-November it had obtained sulfuric acid or sulfur substance. Apart from this, he had publicly expressed his support for Islamic State. And he had various jihadist material on his own mobile phone in which he was inspired to carry out the attack.

Switzerland, Belgium and Spain in a very short time. We face a serious problem, because Islamic State leaders know that minors are more vulnerable and impressionable people., They make them believe that Western society rejects them because they are Muslims and the only way out of this reality is revenge.