French teen girl detained attempting to join ISIL

Rasa - A 15-year-old French girl was in police custody Sunday after she disappeared from her family home in southern France, suspected of wanting to travel to Syria to join ISIL terrorists.

News ID: 1314

Date: 05 October 2014 - 15:36

RNA - Quimper deputy prosecutor Bérengère Prud’homme said the detainee is suspected of wanting to wage militancy, certainly in Syria, or possibly a terror attack.

According to AFP, investigators discovered a Facebook page under a pseudonym which "unequivocally" showed she was planning "to leave France and wage jihad," prosecutors say.

The unnamed girl was in contact with two other teens, a 15-year-old and a 17-year-old, on social networks, and they were all allegedly planning together to travel abroad and join militancy in Syria despite living in three different regions of France.

A recent intelligence report has revealed that terrorists from over 81 countries are currently inside Syria operating against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

New York-based intelligence firm, the Soufan Group, estimated in June that at least 12,000 terrorists from 81 countries, including some 3,000 European nationals, are fighting in Syria.

Other media accounts estimate that higher numbers of foreign mercenaries are involved in the Syrian war, including over 2,000 Europeans and 100 Americans.

Takfiri ISIL terrorists have been committing horrific crimes against innocent civilians since the outbreak of the crisis in Syria in March 2011.

ISIL terrorists have been behind many of the deadly bomb attacks targeting both civilians and government institutions across Syria over the past three years. They have also mass executed hundreds of people in Iraq and Syria.

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