The Hague mayor Jozias van Aartsen. ANP / Remko de Waal
The Hague started a trial to better assess how dangerous radicalized ‘lone wolves’. Writes Mayor Van Aartsen an action plan against radicalization.
About this loners who have a jihadist ideology, but not active in radical groups, it is often difficult to obtain information, but they sometimes come into the picture in the security forces or the municipality.
In the trial the municipality is working closely with the NCTb and the Public Prosecutor. The intention is that experts as soon as possible to make an assessment of the danger of the radicalized ‘lone wolf’ to society and what could be, done.
If the trial is successful, there will be other municipalities use it. Van Aartsen said in a note to the NRC that looks from abroad with interest to the test. An estimate of the number of radicalized ‘lone wolves’ in The Hague, Van Aartsen not mention, but according to him, are in any case less than 15.
Van Aartsen today also announced that since June last year 46 Hagenaars traveled to Syria to join the jihad. Twelve of them are presumably killed; eleven returned to The Hague. That means that approximately a quarter of the 180 Dutch jihad from The Hague
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