France’s top security official says the country has dismantled 13 jihadi
networks recruiting young people for fighting in Syria since fall 2013,
but the number of departures keeps growing.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Wednesday that France was
committed to stopping the networks, but said about 1,200 citizens have
left for Syria, including 400 still in the war zone and about 200 on
their way. French fighters make up the largest contingent of Europeans
joining Muslim extremists in Iraq and Syria, and security officials fear
they will return and attack at home.
Calls by the Islamic State group for lone-wolf attacks in the West have
heightened anxiety. A Frenchman who is believed to have fought with the
organization is charged in a deadly shooting at a Brussels Jewish
museum.
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