08 April 2025 | Threat Analysis, Threat Landscape
Authors: Oliver Hair & Lucy Hagger,Threat Analysts Read Time: 5 minutes Tags: Executive Summary Terrorism-related incidents throughout March 2025 have demonstrated the complexity of terrorism threat globally. Pool Re’s threat analysis team provide a summary of the key incidents in March and a strategic threat assessment on the UK terrorism threat landscape below, including: Extreme Right-Wing related plots from across the UK demonstrate that Extreme Right-Wing terrorism will remain a significant terrorism threat to the UK in the long term. It is almost...
07 February 2025 | Threat Analysis, Threat Landscape
Authors: Oliver Hair & Lucy Hagger,Threat Analysts Read Time: 5 minutes Tags: Executive Summary Terrorism-related incidents throughout January 2025 have demonstrated the complexity of terrorism threat globally. Pool Re’s threat analysis team provide a summary of the key incidents in January and a strategic threat assessment on the UK terrorism threat landscape below, including: The conviction of Jason Savage, an Islamist-inspired terrorist, following the disruption of a late-stage attack plot demonstrated that Islamist terrorism remains the predominant...
03 July 2024 | Threat Analysis, Threat Landscape
Author: Oliver Hair ASyI,Threat Analyst Read Time: 3 minutes Tags: On 14 June 2024, Mason Reynolds, 19, of Brighton, was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment for offences including possessing plans for carrying out an attack on a synagogue near Brighton {X}. Reynolds possessed a note detailing a plan to attack the synagogue, including information about entrances and exits of the synagogue, security mitigations in place, as well as key Jewish holidays. Content found on Reynolds’ phone revealed that he adhered to an Extreme Right-Wing ideology and...
12 June 2024 | Threat Analysis, Threat Landscape
Author: Oliver Hair ASyI,Threat Analyst Read Time: 3 minutes Tags: On 17 May 2024, an individual who reportedly set fire to a synagogue was shot dead by police in Rouen, France. French authorities alleged that the individual was armed with a 25cm knife and threatened police with a metallic tool {X}. Rouen Mayor Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol said that “an armed individual somehow climbed up the synagogue and threw an object, a sort of Molotov cocktail, into the main prayer room” {X}. Reporting suggests that the synagogue was significantly damaged {X}. Two separate...
12 June 2024 | Threat Analysis, Threat Landscape
Author: Oliver Hair ASyI,Threat Analyst Read Time: 3 minutes Tags: On 14 May 2024, three individuals were charged with terrorism offences following an alleged firearms plot targeting the Jewish community in the north-west of England {X}. Walid Saadoui and Amar Hussein were charged with the preparation of terrorist acts between 13 December 2023 and 09 May 2024. The charges against them alleges they “made arrangements for the purchase of delivery of firearms, conducted reconnaissance and made plans of attack” {X}. Bilel Saadoui pleaded not guilty to failing to...
