EU needs to rehabilitate returning jihadists: anti-terror chief


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DATE: Dec. 12, 2015, 5:49 a.m.

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  1. Europe must work out ways to rehabilitate jihadists returning from Syria, the EU's anti-terror czar said on Friday, warning not all of them could be simply thrown in jail. Speaking to delegates at a conference in Rome, Gilles de Kerchove said Europe needed to figure out a way of absorbing hundreds of returning extremists. Kerchove estimated that around 3,000 Europeans had been to Syria, lured by jihadist groups like the Islamic State (IS) group which has claimed a string of recent attacks, including last month's assault on Paris.

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