France To Try 7 Jihadists Including Paris Bomber's Updated: September 18, 2020 Published: 2016-01-23



(eNews.pk) - France To Try Seven Jihadists Including Paris Bomber’s Brother









Seven young men from eastern France, including the brother of one of the jihadists behind the deadly Paris attacks, will face trial for going to Syria to fight in 2013, a judicial source told AFP on Friday.

Seven of Strasbourg began returning to France from February 2014 and were arrested in May.

Two other men who went to fight in the civil war in Syria died there. A tenth man named Mohamed Foued-Aggad remain there until his return to participate in the November 13th fuss at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris.

A total of 130 people died in the chain of attacks that hit Paris in November and sent shockwaves throughout the world.

The brother of the attacker Karim is one of the seven who will face trial for links with criminals linked to a terrorist group, the judicial source said.

All the suspects claimed during the investigation that had gone to Syria for humanitarian reasons and who returned because they could not tolerate the abuses of the Islamic State - which was then known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

They were convinced to travel to Syria by Fares Mourad, a 31-year-old Frenchman considered a key recruiter in line for this who was arrested in August 2014 in Turkey and handed over to French authorities.

Ten young men left France for Syria in December 2013, traveling in smaller groups on planes across Germany and Turkey to avoid attention, a probe showed.

They admit that men trained in the ranks of SI '.

The prosecution had called earlier for men to be tried after they had been found to have sworn allegiance to IS.

In computers and phones men, showing them photographs they were found posing with their guns, as well as text messages threatening France with violence.

Some 1,800 French nationals have been linked to jihadist networks, including more than 600 who are currently in Syria and Iraq and 144 who had died in fighting there.





















