The definition of the term ‘terrorist offences’ is indicated in
Article 1 of the Council Framework Decision of 13 June 2002
on combating terrorism (2002/475/JHA),22 which all EU
Member States have implemented in their national legislation.
This Framework Decision specifies that terrorist offences
are intentional acts which, given their nature or context,
may seriously damage a country or an international organisation
when committed with the aim of:
• seriously intimidating a population, or
• unduly compelling a government or international organisation
to perform or abstain from performing an act, or
• seriously destabilising or destroying the fundamental political,
constitutional, economic or social structures of a
country or an international organisation.
In cases in which the wording of Article 1 of the Framework
Decision leaves room for interpretation, the TE-SAT 2013
respects Member States’ definitions of terrorist offences on
their territories. At times, it can be difficult to assess whether
a criminal event should be regarded as an act of ‘terrorism’
or as an act of ‘extremism’. Contrary to terrorism, not all forms
of extremism sanction the use of violence. Nevertheless, extremism
as a phenomenon may be related to terrorism and
exhibit similar behavioural patterns. Therefore, the TE-SAT
2013 mentions criminal acts with the potential to seriously
destabilise or destroy the fundamental political, constitutional,
economic or social structures of a country, when they
were reported by the Member States as extremism, in an
effort to provide a clearer picture of the phenomenon and
its relation to terrorism. However, these cases were not considered
in the statistical data of this report, which exclusively
reflect incidents reported as terrorism by EU Member States.
What, exactly, is absurd about this?
Quintium wrote: Reading their report for 2012, it is easy to see why separatists and the far-right are behind most 'acts of terrorism' if I look at the organisations they consider to be terrorist and the actions they consider to be terrorist. For example, the Génération Identitaire (whose only claim to fame is peacefully occupying the Poitiers mosque) is considered a terrorist organisation, and so is the English Defence League.
Huh, that's curious. A word search through the 2012 EU terrorism situation and trend report doesn't turn up any results for "Génération Identitaire" or "Identitaire", nor for "defence", "league" or "English Defence league".
Very odd, don't you think?
Maybe you meant the 2013 report? If you did, you have failed to notice that the English Defence League is not mentioned under terrorism, but rather violent right-wing extremism, while Génération Identitaire remains unmentioned (Same as with the 2014 report).
Quintium wrote: In fact, the report makes clear that all organisations that are anti-Islam or against Muslim immigration or oppose multiculturalism are considered far-right extremists.
In addition, when it comes to animal cruelty, organisations that wanted to free animals from testing departments are also considered terrorist. Activists who tried to prevent the construction of a high-speed train link near Turin were also considered terrorists.
Incorrect. That's not what the report says.
