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land, in aviation, and in nautical transport the bombings
of the Madrid train system in 2004 (l.; makeshift
shrine), the bombing of Air India Flight 182 in 1985 (c.;
memorial), and the City of Poros ship attack in 1988 (r.; The seat of the European Police Oce (Europol) in The Hague.
City of Poros in 1988) constitute the deadliest attacks
carried out in Europe, killing 192, 329, and 11 people,
recent years has been through Europol. They have cat-
respectively.
egorised acts of terrorism that have either failed, been
foiled or been successfully executed within the European
There is a long history of terrorism in Europe. This has Union (EU) as either pertaining to religious issues, right
often been linked to nationalist and separatist movements, wing, left wing or separatist movements. The eld is sub-
while other acts have been related to political extremism ject to considerable cooperation among national authori-
(including anarchism, far-right and far-left extremism) or ties.
religious extremism.
1
2 2 HISTORY
any attack). Similar strategies have been adopted by other Askatasuna within Spain. Other perpetrators have been
countries across the European Union, and there have been linked to far-right and far-left extremism, environmental
increases in co-operation between nations and security extremism and anarchism. Since 2001, there has been
forces. an increase in attacks linked to extremist Islamist groups,
particularly in France. Many of the terrorist activities
classied under separatists or extremism also have a reli-
2 History gious angle, for e.g. the Chechens in Russia. The inter-
nationally co-ordinated element has seen increasing at-
tempts by governments to seek to weaken extremist ide-
2.1 Denitions ology, particularly Islamist extremism.
There is an overlap between terrorism and various other It remains the case that the majority of deaths from ter-
forms of conict and violent action, including civil wars[4] rorism do not occur in the West. When the Al Qaeda at-
or non-international armed conicts. This is the case with tacks against the United States in 2001 are excluded, only
several signicant non-international conicts in Europe, 0.5% of all deaths from terrorism have occurred in West-
where there thus can be dispute as to what counts as ter- ern countries European nations, United States, Canada
rorism: examples include the Irish War of Independence and Australia in the past fteen years.[8] However, there
(191921), the breakup of Yugoslavia and subsequent have been recent increases in the number of high-fatality
conicts,[5] the First (1994-6) and Second Chechen Wars attacks. There had been a decrease in the number of
(1999-2009), and the War of Dagestan (1999). overall fatalities from terrorist attacks between 1990 and
2015, compared to those between 1970 and 1990.[9] Prior
to 1990, on average 150 people died each year from ter-
2.2 Trend rorist attacks; this gure would be even higher if the large
number of people who died in 1988 from the Pan Am
Statistics from 2006 to 2013 by aliation 2013 bombing were included. From 1990, an average
of a little under 50 people died each year. However,
this gure has begun to increase again from 2011, with
the attacks by far-right extremist Anders Breivik in Nor-
way, and Islamist extremist attacks in France in 2015 and
2016.
Europol has published an annual trend report on terrorist
attacks (including failed, foiled, and completed attacks)
and terrorist related arrests in the EU since 2006.[10] The
reports identify that perpetrators known or suspected af-
liations have been disparate in nature. Europol break
these down into ve categories: jihadist terrorism (pre-
Attacks
viously termed religiously-inspired terrorism); ethno-
nationalist and separatist terrorism; left-wing and anar-
chist terrorism; right-wing terrorism; and single-issue ter-
rorism. Europols reports do not provide a breakdown
of the proportion of attacks that have been completed or
the type of damage inicted. According to these data the
vast majority of terrorist attacks in the EU between 2006
and 2013 are aliated with ethno-national or separatist
motives, followed by left-wing attacks and those that are
registered as 'unspecied'. A signicant number of ter-
ror attacks are motivated religiously or associated with
right-wing groups. However, among those arrested on
terror-related crimes most are religiously motivated and
form the largest group, followed by separatist related ter-
Arrests
ror suspects.
In 2015, a total of 211 completed, failed, or foiled ter-
Terrorism in Europe around the beginning of the twenti- rorist attacks were reported by EU states, resulting in
eth century was often associated with anarchism.[6][7] 151 fatalities (of which 148 were in France, with 130
Terrorism within the European Communities since 1951 of them occurring during the November 2015 Paris at-
has often been linked to separatist movements, notably tacks.) and over 360 people injured. As in previous
the Chechens in Russia, the Bosnians, the Irish Republi- years, separatist attacks accounted for the largest propor-
can Army within the United Kingdom, and Euskadi Ta tion (65), followed by jihadist attacks (17). The latter,
3
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terrorism. It excludes transcontinental countries such as rope and the Balkans 2003, 5(1): 39-51
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5 Bibliography
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6 External links
European Counter Terrorism Centre - Europol
List of most wanted fugitives in Europe - Europol
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