ANNEX 2 ARRESTS IN 2016 PER EU MEMBER STATE AND PER AFFILIATION

Member State Jihadist Left-wing Right-wing Separatist Single issue Not specified Total
Austria 30 0 0 4 0 0 34
Belgium 62 0 0 0 0 3 65
Bulgaria 5 0 0 0 0 0 5
Czech Republic 1 1 0 0 0 0 2
Denmark 8 0 0 0 0 0 8
France 429 1 0 26 0 0 456
Germany 25 1 5 4 0 0 35
Greece 15 1 0 0 0 1 17
Ireland 1 0 0 16 0 0 17
Italy 28 8 0 1 0 1 38
Netherlands 36 0 6 1 0 2 45
Poland 5 0 1 0 0 0 6
Romania 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Slovenia 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Spain 69 19 0 31 0 1 120
Sweden 2 0 0 1 0 0 3
UK - - - - - 149 149
Total 718 31 12 84 0 157 1002

In 2016, 1002 individuals were arrested for terrorism-related offences in 17 EU Member States. This was a decrease of 7% compared to 2015, from 1077 to 1002. Most arrests were reported by France (456), United Kingdom (149) and Spain (120). There is a decrease of 50% in the number of individuals arrested for separatist terrorism, and a continued increase for the third consecutive year of those arrested for religiously-inspired terrorism, from 395 in 2014, to 687 in 2015 and to 718 in 2016.

Most of the countries registered a decrease or a similar number of arrests in 2016, apart from France where the arrests number continued to increase from 238 in 2014, to 424 in 2015, and to 456 in 2016, and Belgium from 61 to 65, but still under the level of 2014 (72).

The number of EU citizens amongst the arrestees decreased by 25% in 2016 compared to 2015, from 592 in 2015 to 437 in 2016.