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Since 2012, at least 150 people from Denmark have travelled to Syria or Iraq to join militant jihadist groups – and over half have received social benefits at some point during their time away.
New figures from the Employment Ministry reveal that at least 84 people have been given some form of public benefit whilst fighting on behalf of the Islamic State or some other terrorist group.
“One can only distance oneself from that. It shouldn’t be possible to be able to travel out of Denmark and take part in a conflict where you’re fighting against Danish values. So now we have ushered in a new law that will stop that in the future,” the employment minister, Troels Lund Poulsen, told TV2 News.