France has seen 271 jihadi militants return

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France has seen 271 jihadi militants return

August 6, 2017 at 11:10 am

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August 6, 2017 at 11:10 am

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France has seen 271 jihadi militants return from war zones in Iraq and Syria and all of them are subject to investigation by public prosecutors, the country’s interior minister said in a newspaper interview.

Some 700 French nationals are estimated to have fought in Daesh’s ranks in Iraq and Syria, and like other European countries France has been wrestling with how to handle the flow of so-called returnees.

The number of jihadis to have returned to France included 217 adults and 54 minors, with some of them currently in detention, Gerard Collomb said in an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche.

The head of France’s special forces said in June that his units were directly involved in street battles in the Iraqi city of Mosul but denied they were specifically targeting French-born jihadis fighting for Daesh.

France has participated in a US-led coalition battling Daesh in Iraq, and it also intervened in Mali to push back an Islamist rebellion in the west African state.


https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170806-france-has-seen-271-jihadi-militants-return/