In 2017 Rik Coolsaet anticipated the kind of jihadi attacks that today hit France and Austria

In 2017, Egmont Fellow Rik Coolsaet anticipated the kind of jihadi attacks that today hit France and Austria.

The Syrian civil war having produced the largest jihadi mobilization to date “it is thus reasonable and, unfortunately, realistic to assume that for some time to come attacks ‘in the name of Daesh’ will continue to be plotted by all kinds of people: returnees seeking revenge, lone actors and small cells, the desperate and the 15-minutes-of-fame seekers, delinquents in need of justification, and even the mentally unstable wrapping their psychological problems in a Daesh-ish narrative.”

Read his Egmont Paper ‘Anticipating the Post-Daesh Landscape‘.