By Henry Samuel
The manual, developed by France, Germany and Austria and to be handed out to prison staff, was presented at a closed-door conference of EU security experts that ended Wednesday.
The manual has not been made public, as officials are concerned if it got into would-be jihadists' hands, they would avoid any of the warning signs it lists.
The manual draws from experiences from European and other security officials, including New York City police.
Prisons "can be a facilitator and an accelerator" of radicalisation and inmates are often "strongly destabilised" and thus easily indoctrinated, said Christophe Chaboud, head of France's Anti-Terrorist Coordination Unit.
"It is not a question of religion but of confrontation with the West," he went on.
It is estimated France has up to six million Muslims, and unofficial figures say a large part of the country's 64,000 inmates are Muslims – in some prisons they are in a majority. Read more ...
The manual, developed by France, Germany and Austria and to be handed out to prison staff, was presented at a closed-door conference of EU security experts that ended Wednesday.
The manual has not been made public, as officials are concerned if it got into would-be jihadists' hands, they would avoid any of the warning signs it lists.
The manual draws from experiences from European and other security officials, including New York City police.
Prisons "can be a facilitator and an accelerator" of radicalisation and inmates are often "strongly destabilised" and thus easily indoctrinated, said Christophe Chaboud, head of France's Anti-Terrorist Coordination Unit.
"It is not a question of religion but of confrontation with the West," he went on.
It is estimated France has up to six million Muslims, and unofficial figures say a large part of the country's 64,000 inmates are Muslims – in some prisons they are in a majority. Read more ...
Source: Telegraph
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