Why would a young Hungarian commit an ISIS terrorist attack?

How and why did a young man of 21 years of age decide to plan a terrorist attack?

As Daily News Hungary reported last week, a young university student was arrested by Hungarian counter-terrorism officers. He supposedly had the intention to detonate a bomb during one of the matches of the European Championship played in Budapest and to drive into a crowd at Lake Balaton.

According to Magyar Nemzet, the 21-year-old university student from Kecskemét will undergo several sessions with a criminal psychologist to determine why and how he got to the point of wanting to commit these crimes.

Based on the newspaper’s information, the young man swore allegiance to ISIS and was following several web pages, organisations and communities on Facebook related to the terrorist group.

It is crucial to figure out what led him to consider the decision to blow himself up willingly. To get to the root of it, they will conduct a series of so-called deep interviews.

Examining his social media pages and his browser history is one of the methods being followed. All this activity shows the sign of him slowly becoming radical. The Islamic organisations, web pages and communities that he liked, conversations he initiated, people he talked to on the internet, whether he separately searched for content that seemed appealing to him, and when he contacted an Islamic organisation – all these depict a clear image of how his personality changed.