(Belga) 18 per cent of the threat reports received by the Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis (CUTA) in 2024 involved minors. There is also “rapid radicalisation among minors,” the organisation says in its annual report published on Thursday.
According to CUTA, the number of minors involved in plans for extremist or terrorist violence in Belgium appears to have increased in recent years. This phenomenon can also be observed abroad. For example, there have been several such attacks or plans for attacks in France, Sweden and Germany.
“Over the past three years, almost a third of the people who planned an attack in Belgium were under 18 years old,” the report states. “If we look at the identified perpetrators of threat reports, minors also appear to be on the rise in 2024.”
