Legislación en materia de terrorismo en el Derecho comparado. Comentarios a la Ley Antiterrorista 35/2010 de 21 de julio de la República Islámica de Mauritania (RIM)

Abstract

The Islamic Republic of Mauritania, as other neighboring countries, is being forced to face a sustained and systematic type of criminal activity, based on violence and terror. Since 2007 a displacement of several terrorist groups has been produced from North Africa and Sahel´s region to Mauritanian lands. Initially, they considered Mauritania as an area of support, transit an training, whilst later on, they considered it as a fighting area within the regional strategy of terrorist groups to expand their perimeter of activity in order to increase the terrorist threat, converting this way Mauritania since 2009, as a clear strategic objective. A traditionally pacific society has seen how their way to coexist has been disrupted by a terrorist phenomenon of Jihadist-Salafist nature, whose main goal is to expand the global Jihad, therefore, they are looking for a strategic opportunity to establish an islamic caliphate in Maghreb states as a whole. In this piece of work we analyze the answer that the legislator has given to confront this serious threat, obliged by historical circumstances of a country with a weak degree of social integration and characterized by its fragility within the countries that compose Maghreb as a whole. It´ll be since 2009, due to the gravity and proliferation of terrorist attacks in Mauritanian society, when a new anti-terrorist legislation will be enacted, among other measures.