Register of Racism and Resistance (RRR)

France arrests teen for Olympics terror attack plot
31 May 24
In France, police arrest a teenager of Chechen origin suspected of planning an ‘Islamist-inspired’ attack on spectators at the forthcoming Olympics.
Source: Deutsche Welle
Category: COUNTER-TERRORISM AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Country: France
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Statewatch | Who’s a “potential terrorist or violent extremist threat”? Plans to exchange information about “future” criminals
16 May 24
Statewatch reveals that EU member states have finalised a set of ‘non-binding’ criteria for assessing who might be labelled a potential terrorist or violent extremist, for use in the Schengen Information System, the European Information System and Europol.
Source: Statewatch
Category: COUNTER-TERRORISM AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Country: EU
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Belgium: Police arrest 4 teens over alleged jihadi plot
3 March 24
Four teenagers are arrested in different cities in Belgium after allegedly exchanging messages to plot a jihadi terror attack, though no weapons or explosives are found. Federal prosecutors say ‘it’s not that they were planning something tomorrow, but still imminent enough to intervene’.
Source: Deutsche Welle
Category: COUNTER-TERRORISM AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Country: Belgium
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French anti-terror prosecutors charge teacher over chants ‘promoting jihad’
27 February 24
The national anti-terror prosecutor’s office in France charges a primary school teacher from Drancy, Paris, with ‘terrorist criminal conspiracy’, alleging that he translated chants ‘promoting jihad’ and sent them to members of Islamic State to broadcast.
Source: Le Monde
Category: COUNTER-TERRORISM AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Country: France
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New report reveals widespread data sharing and retention of Prevent referrals, including children’s data
22 February 24
A report by the Open Rights Group, Prevent and the pre-crime State: how unaccountable data sharing is harming a generation, reveals that the data of people referred to the Prevent programme, including children, is kept for years and widely shared, even when files are marked ‘no further action’.
Source: Open Rights Group
Category: COUNTER-TERRORISM AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Country: UK
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Prevent counter-terror scheme failures leave public at risk – ex-adviser
21 February 24
Sir William Shawcross, whose 2023 review of counter-terror strategy claimed that it focused too much on the far Right and not enough on Islamist extremism, warns that the public is at risk and that the Prevent programme should pay more attention to ‘the Hamas support network’.
Source: BBC
Category: COUNTER-TERRORISM AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Country: UK
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Support Professor Ghassan Hage Against Vile and Vicious Smear Campaign
4 February 24
A petition is launched to support anthropology professor Ghassan Hage, who is said to be subjected to a ‘vicious smear campaign’ in Germany by journalists and pro-Israel activists for condemning war crimes committed by the Israeli army and settlers, leading him to terminate his relationship with the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle.
Source: Change.org
Category: COUNTER-TERRORISM AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Country: Germany
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Ofsted: Alternative provision in ‘desperate need of reform’
1 February 24
An Ofsted and Care Quality Commission report finds that alternative provision is being used ‘inappropriately’ and that AP placements rose above 67,000 in January 2023. The 13 per cent rise in one year is related to the number of students with special needs placed in AP as a ‘stopgap’, ‘unofficial’ exclusions, and high rates, since the pandemic, of permanent exclusions from some academies.
Source: TES
Category: COUNTER-TERRORISM AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Country: UK
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Police in Sweden destroy ‘live’ device outside Israeli embassy
1 February 24
A suspected explosive device is found and destroyed by a bomb squad outside the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, Sweden.
Source: Guardian
Category: COUNTER-TERRORISM AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Country: Sweden
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Terrorism charge against SPSC campaigner dropped
26 January 24
Terrorism charges against Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign founder Mick Napier, in relation to comments made about the right of Palestinians to resist occupation, are dropped at the Glasgow sheriff xourt, which refuses the prosecutor’s request to continue repressive bail conditions, including a ban on attending any protest anywhere in Scotland.
Source: SPSC
Category: COUNTER-TERRORISM AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Country: Scotland
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French prison opens anti-radicalization unit for women
22 January 24
The French authorities announce that a new ‘women’s radicalisation prevention section’ has been established at the Roanne detention centre near Lyon, comprising fourteen cells reserved for female returnees from Syria, and that the first inmates will arrive at the end of January.
Source: Le Monde
Category: COUNTER-TERRORISM AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Country: France
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Romford neo-Nazi podcaster Tyrone Patten-Walsh jailed
4 January 24
Kingston Crown Court sends two neo-Nazis, Christopher Gibbons and Tyrone Patten-Walsh, to prison for seven and eight years for encouraging terrorism in podcasts encouraging listeners to attack ethnic minorities, as well as an online library of extreme-right material with 1,000 subscribers.
Source: Romford Recorder
Category: COUNTER-TERRORISM AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Country: UK
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‘Startling’ rise in child arrests in London over extreme Right-wing terrorism, Met chief warns
2 January 24
The Met’s counter-terror chief, Dominic Murphy, expresses concern about the number of young Londoners radicalised by extreme-right material and ideology. Of 25 children arrested in the 12 months to June 2023, 14 had extreme right-wing terrorism views compared with nine for Islamist views.
Source: Standard
Category: COUNTER-TERRORISM AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Country: UK
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German police arrest three over Cologne cathedral plot
31 December 23
In Cologne, Germany, police arrest four people in relation to an alleged Islamist terror plot to attack Cologne Cathedral on New Year’s Eve.
Source: Deutsche Welle
Category: COUNTER-TERRORISM AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Country: Germany
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Germany, Netherlands arrest 4 over Hamas plot
14 December 23
In the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark, eight people are arrested on suspicion of being members of Hamas, planning attacks on Jewish institutions in Europe and storing weapons in Berlin for that purpose.
Source: Deutsche Welle
Category: COUNTER-TERRORISM AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Country: Germany, Netherlands
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