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Some 217 adult French nationals have returned to France from fighting in the Middle East, Gerard Collomb told Le Journal du Dimanche. In addition, some 54 minors have reportedly made it back home after fighting alongside self-proclaimed IS (Islamic State, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists.
An undisclosed number of them have been detained while the rest are being vetted by public prosecutors, the interior minister said. He revealed that an estimated 700 French militants had traveled to Iraq and Syria over the past years. Some of them have been killed with the exact number unknown.
With the growing number of returning radicalized fighters, the threat of terrorist attacks in France remains "very high," the minister said, noting seven foiled plots so far this year.
Collomb added that in addition to returnees, another 18,500 people have been flagged under a preventative monitoring system for radicalized behavior, Reuters reported.
France has been on high alert since January 2015, when it was hit by a series of Islamic State-linked terrorist attacks. The most notable of these occurred in November of 2015, when 130 people were killed and over 360 injured in coordinated terror attacks in Paris and Saint-Denis, a northern Parisian suburb.
An attack in Nice on July 14, 2016, killed at least 84 people when a truck driven by an IS sympathizer plowed through crowds during Bastille Day celebrations. This year, jihadist attackers were involved in two incidents targeting police on the Champs Elysees in Paris.
Here's a question for you! What do major corporations and Daesh have in common? They have innumerable names so we loose track of them. Wahhabi terrorists brought to us by Saudi Arabians investing their profits from selling oil to westerners. So keep voting with our wallets, my truck just isn't big enough to carry my usual cargo of flashlight and micro dog. Of course I need a crane to get my butt in the damn thing.
But God forbid we should cut off the Saudi's madrassa money! Brainwashed from their early years we will brainwash them again with football, porn and beer. It works for us! Suggestion, send them all to Idlib, hell we break every international rule there is lets start breaking domestic civil laws that only serve to protect dangerous known violent offenders, well except cops of course, they are infallible. If they ship all the terrorists to Europe and the Syrians do seem serious about fighting terrorism, does this mean Syria will eventually be safer than western countries? Hmm do they have roundup in their wheat, (and every other gd thing) and mandatory injection of fatal chemicals into babies, oh I mean vaccinations. Oh I would miss TV too much. So much useful information. Did you know Seth Rich did not like Hillary, that's a felony! Punishable by death!
One group of nations, under the devil, with crime and death brought by oligarchs. We have come such a long way from liberty and justice for all, truth be known it was always just a catchy slogan. Since when do non psychopaths matter.
Sorry had a sarcasm attack and can not find my Meds.