Around 200 UK jihadists, who went to Syria to fight alongside the Daesh*, are thought to be alive and might decide to come home, something that would be a serious threat to national security, Neil Basu, Scotland Yard assistant commissioner, who is in charge of anti-terror policing in Great Britain, said on Wednesday.
Basu specified that these jihadists know that they will be on the police’s “radar” and are at risk of prosecution if they get caught.
The terror threat has remained high in the United Kingdom in recent years. The country has faced a number of bloody terror acts, most notably the attack on London’s Westminster Bridge and parliament grounds in March 2017, as well as a concert bombing in Manchester on May 22, 2017.