(Dutch News) The national ombudsman Reinier van Zutphen says he is concerned at the way people are being officially registered as having “extremist views” or “terrorist sympathies” even though this can have major consequences for the way they live their lives.
People are often not aware that they have been labeled a risk under the CTER scheme, why they are listed and how they can be removed, the ombudsman said on Monday. They may, for example, find they are unable to travel or get stuck abroad, as happened to one man in Spain last year.
It took Spanish police two months to release the man from Tilburg … after he was taken from his hotel in Spain at the end of July while on his way to Morocco with his wife for a holiday. Spain said he was a risk to national security and was on a list banning him from entering the country.
