Minister of Security and Justice. Photo ANP / Martijn Beekman
The Dutch government can not prohibit the Islamic State (IS). That said Minister Ivo Opstelten (Justice and Security, VVD) this morning prior to the Council of Ministers to news agency Novum. The minister was responding to a decision by Germany, where it IS banned.
According Opstelten Netherlands does not have the tools with which Germany the movement ban.
“We have our own constitutional instruments. It can, but only through a public prosecutor, the judge must ask for a ban. “
The German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, announced earlier this morning that the country prohibits all activities of the group. Besides that the terrorist movement itself is prohibited, recruiting, spreading propaganda and seeking financiers no longer allowed.
The minister calls the group a “threat to public safety and must therefore be stopped.” In Germany some 400 IS sympathizers would live.
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