Wednesday, April 13, 2016

SAPO: western Swedish city has 100 IS-supporters – Göteborgs-Posten



According to a survey that the police have done, there are up to 100 people Boras who sympathize with IS and risk being radicalized, reports SVT.
 - It looks probably the same in the whole country, says Tomas Jansson, police area manager in Boras, the TV channel.

The past six months, the police in Boras two police officers working full-time with countering violent extremism.

Now they have developed a survey that shows that 80 to 100 people in one’s area of ​​coverage sympathize with iS, reports SVT. Most of the residents of Borås, a few are in Sjuhärad municipalities.

– The figure may seem high, but it probably looks the same in the whole country. Scrape the surface, you find maybe more than we originally thought and we’ve been working actively to find these people, says Tomas Jansson Police Area Manager in Boras, to SVT.

According to him, it is quite possible that there may be IS-recruitment in the group they have identified.

Police said that since the former has already ten boråsare left the city to fight for IS in Syria. Three of those suspected to have died in the fighting.

To access the survey has talked to worried parents, received tips from schools and interacted with the Security Service and other municipal activities. Tomas Jansson feel that they have been careful in its assessment.

– We have good evidence that this is true, he says to SVT.

At Anyang City police will notice unexpected.

– It was pretty surprising. That there were those who sympathized I knew, but not that they were so many, says security chief Bo Hansson of Borås town, to SVT.

Meanwhile, the municipality works hard on prevention. Right now is being compile an action plan that will later be included in the municipal government.

– The municipality’s task is to provide support to these individuals and perhaps primarily for their families, says Bo Hansson to SVT.

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