AIVD: Criminals increasingly collect information about civil servants, politicians and lawyers with professional follow -up teams

Criminals increasingly collect information about civil servants, politicians, journalists and lawyers. With advanced equipment and follow -up teams, find out criminals where targets live, work and with whom they deal. That is one of the findings of the Intelligence Service AIVD, from the annual report of 2024 published on Thursday.

« The technical skills of specialized criminal intelligence teams can be compared in parts with those of investigation and security services, » writes the AIVD. Sometimes the criminals get personal information from government and business systems, by buying or threatening employees.

The AIVD also writes that right-wing extremist groups in 2024 tried for their ideological views, such as the surrounding theoryto normalize. The Intelligence Service cites a Kieskompas poll for substantiation, which showed that one in six Dutch people believed in 2024 « that part of the political elite deliberately tries to replace the original Dutch population with non-Western immigrants. »

In 2024, the Dutch intelligence service also experienced that the Kremlin was more aggressive, brutal and more provider against European countries. In addition, the AIVD wrote A cyber attack focused on Dutch defense ready for China.

Anti -randness

In the report, the AIVD further writes that in 2024 people were being charged for ‘anti-institutional extremism’. Three are suspected of planning civil arrests, where a mayor and police officers were the target. At the same time, last year there was no serious physical incidents with national politicians, such as in 2023 with Thierry Baudet. In that year the FVD leader was attacked With a beer bottle.

Also the growth of the wider (usually non-violent) anti-institutional movement probably decreased for the first time last year, says the AIVD. Thousands to tens of thousands of visitors make themselves angry about migration, climate policy, woke-Stachtoed And the Coronapandemie. The wider movement now seems less focused on the ‘trial and punishment’ of ‘the elite’. They prefer to return to their own circle and get rid of society.

Jihadism

Threat from a jihadist corner also posed a threat to the Netherlands last year. Jihadists and extremist Muslims committed eleven attacks in Europe in 2024. According to the AIVD, international intelligence and security services managed to prevent a few dozen attacks. In the Netherlands, a judge still has to determine whether it last September stabbing incident At the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam, where one dead fell, had a terrorist purpose.

The Islamic terror group has been used, according to the AIVD, the war in Gaza and Koran burns To encourage followers to commit attacks worldwide against Jews and Christians, among others. Jihadists also wanted to commit attacks during the European Football Championships in Germany and the Olympic Games in Paris, but the authorities managed to prevent them.

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