Seven French Terrorists, who Joined Terrorist Organizations in Syria in 2013, to be Judged

PARIS- Seven French terrorists from Strasbourg, including the brother of one of the suicide bombers in Paris attacks, were referred to the criminal court in France where they will be judged for having left for Syria in 2013 to join fight along with terrorist organizations, a French judicial source told AFP on Friday.

The seven terrorists returned to France in February 2014 and had been arrested in May of the same year.

According to AFP, two other terrorists, brothers, were killed in Syria, while Mohamed Fouad-Aggad stayed in Syria before returning to participate in the events of November 13 in Paris that claimed the lives of 130 people. The judicial source clarified that his brother, Karim, is one of seven who will be judged in court on charges of “criminal association” in relation with a terrorist organization.

The terrorists confessed that they received military training by the terrorist organization calling itself “Islamic State” (ISIS, ISIL or Deash).

According to the French authorities, there are some 1800 French terrorists within the ranks of the terrorist organizations in Syria and Iraq.

Western governments, that have turned a blind eye to terrorism for years, now have fears that thousands of terrorists, who left western countries to Syria to join terrorist organizations, may return to commit terrorist acts against these countries.

Hamda Mustafa