France has named a second Frenchman in a video showing the
killing of Syrian prisoners by Islamic State (IS) militants as Mickael Dos
Santos, 22.
The Muslim convert comes from an eastern Paris suburb. The
other French militant was named as Maxime Hauchard, a convert from Normandy.
In the same video, the severed head of US hostage
Abdul-Rahman Kassig was displayed for the camera.
About 1,000 French jihadists are thought to have gone to Syria
and Iraq.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said after a security
meeting in Beauvais, north of Paris, that "close to 50" French
citizens had died in Syria.
"Sadly, we are not surprised to learn that French
citizens or residents of France are found at the heart of these cells and
taking part in this barbarity," he added.
[BBC]
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