Psychiatrist Esther van Fenema: ‘If I had been young now, I am not sure whether I would have stayed within the lines’

The AIVD is sounding the alarm: more and more young people, sometimes teenagers, are appearing in investigations into extremism, espionage and violence. From jihadist networks to teenagers recruited via Telegram for Russian spy jobs. That goes a step further than ‘just’ an activist student. Yet the difference is psychologically smaller than we think.

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