Belgian Police Track Over 3,000 Far-Right Supporters Amid Rising Extremism Concerns

This database, according to the Belgian media, is submitted annually to the supervising Minister by the Federal Police, the Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis (OCAM) and the intelligence and security services.

According to OCAM, far-right ideas are on the rise in Belgium and are even becoming commonplace.

Furthermore, the same media nuance by indicating that the list established by the security services does not mean that the 2,848 people on it are ready to use violence or commit an attack.

According to the same sources, only seven of them are under the scrutiny of OCAM, which is also monitoring hundreds of jihadists.

However, the security services do not rule out that a "lone wolf" could act, like the shooter who targeted a synagogue on Wednesday, October 9, in Halle, Germany, the same media report.