(NL Times) While the coronavirus crisis makes a large-scale terrorist attack in the Netherlands less likely, the possibility of an attack is still “conceivable,” the national coordinator for counterterrorism and security NCTV said on Thursday. The terrorism threat level in the Netherlands therefore remains at 3 out of 5.
According to the NCTV, the biggest terrorist threat to the Netherlands still comes from the jihadist movement. Part of the Dutch jihadist movement is still active and wants to commit an attack, sometimes with concrete plans. There are two categories of jihadists that are of particular concern, the NCTV said. The first is jailed jihadists who can negatively influence each other in prison, the other is returned jihadists who gained combat experience in terrorist groups.
