According to a new report from Europol, the EU saw a total of 1,002 arrests for terrorism offences in 2016. The number of people arrested on suspicion of Islamist terrorism offences rose for the third year in a row.

There were 395 such arrests in 2014, 687 in 2015 and 718 last year.

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As the chart above, via Statista's Nial McCarthy exposes, France had 429 jihadist arrests last year, far ahead of second placed Spain's 69.

Belgium, well known as a source of ISIS foreign fighters in Syria, came third with 62 arrests.