You’re never too young. “French teenagers charged over Syria jihad,” from AFP, February 1:
Paris: Two French high school students who allegedly ran away to fight in Syria have been charged by a special anti-terrorism judge, a rare step for suspects who are minors.
The two Muslim boys, aged 15 and 16, were charged on Friday with criminal conspiracy in connection with a terrorist enterprise and placed under court supervision, which would include educational measures, a judicial source said.
The pair, who are from the southern city of Toulouse, flew to Turkey on January 6 and crossed the border into Syria, apparently planning to join the thousands of foreigners fighting President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.
According to Interior Minister Manuel Valls, as many as 700 French nationals may have joined the fighting in Syria. About a dozen are believed to be minors.
French officials fear these radicals could be a ticking time bomb whose eventual return to France will pose a major security challenge in the future.
Investigators spent two days interrogating the two Toulouse teens after they were flown home.
Their answers clearly showed they succeeded in crossing the border into Syria, though the 15-year-old disputed travelling to a jihadist training camp, a source close to the case said.
A lawyer for the younger suspect called the charges ridiculous and said the boys’ trip was for humanitarian reasons.
“The reasons for their trip had nothing to do with any terrorist enterprise,” the 16-year-old’s lawyer said.
Nearly three years after it began, the war in Syria is increasingly drawing Islamist extremists to the region.
Dr Assad’s regime has used the label terrorist to describe the entire opposition. But in fact more moderate rebels are also fighting the extremists themselves.
French, British, Belgian and German officials have all voiced concerns about radicalised young Muslims from their countries heading to fight in Syria and returning home as battle-hardened veterans. Australian officials have expressed similar concerns.

Salah says
Let them go to Syria, Assad will take care of the rest!
Etienne says
Anyone going to Syria goes there for an ulterior motive and that is terror. Let them return to their home country and strip them of their citizenship. Then send them back to any country that want them.
Charli Main says
So, where are these “European” Muslims being radicalised??
Where are they being taught to hate the Country and people that have given them a home??
Simple answer– in all the Mosques and Madrassas that are springing up like mushrooms all over Europe.
These Mosques and Madrassas ARE NOT PLACES OF WORSHIP- THEY ARE HATE SCHOOLS, where Muslims from age 3 upwards, are brainwashed to wage Jihad against the Country and people that have taken them in and given them a home.
The moronic Western Governments that are importing millions of Muslim “refugees” and “asylum seekers” are incapable of understanding that these Muslims, unlike other immigrant communities that are grateful for the chance of a new life, WILL NEVER ADOPT OR ADAPT TO THE CULTURE OF THE COUNTRY THAT HAS GIVEN THEM A HOME.
11B40 says
Greetings:
Mmmmm, Toulouse. Weren’t there some antisemitic and jihad murders in that city not to long ago ???
I saw a news report on France 24 when the story first broke that included a segment with the “boys” school principal expressing his heartfelt desire that the JITs return to his school. He didn’t mention any jihadi deprogramming programs though.
No1 says
Hi Robert, do you know that your jihadwatch.com redirect seems to be broken?
Christian Beltram says
I hope that France and other countries create national deprograming programs and require minors who have been brainwashed by Jihadist propaganda to undergo deprogramming therapy.
Also, Adults who want to escape from the indoctrination of Jihadist propaganda and from the control of Jihadist groups as well as from dangerous family situations involving Jihadism should be given all the help they need to do so by this same deprogramming service and their identities and locations should be concealed from the media in order to protect them from harm that would befall them if their identities and whereabouts were ever discovered.
gravenimage says
Christn Beltram wrote:
I hope that France and other countries create national deprograming programs and require minors who have been brainwashed by Jihadist propaganda to undergo deprogramming therapy.
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I doubt it would work, Christian. For one thing, pious Muslims would never be swayed by anything the “filthy Kuffar” have to say.
And secondly, few Infidels even allow themselves to understand that it is Islam that is the problem to begin with.
Etienne says
I agree. The solution is to strip them of their citizenship and give them $500.00 and send them to any Islamic country. Get rid of this refuse like France has done to Gypsies.
gravenimage says
Etienne wrote:
Get rid of this refuse like France has done to Gypsies.
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Etienne, Gypsies are not trying to oppress and mass-murder Gadjé (non-Gypsies) as pious Muslims are Infidels.
I’m afraid this is false moral equivalence.
gravenimage says
France: Two Muslim teenagers charged over Syria jihad
You’re never too young.
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No, indeed. And where did they learn that Jihad was an integral part of Islam? At home? At the Mosque or Madrassa? Will anyone even think to ask?
More:
The pair, who are from the southern city of Toulouse, flew to Turkey on January 6 and crossed the border into Syria, apparently planning to join the thousands of foreigners fighting President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.
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Did they fake their own passports? Did an adult Muslim do it for them? Or did their parents give them permission to go on Jihad?
More:
A lawyer for the younger suspect called the charges ridiculous and said the boys’ trip was for humanitarian reasons.
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Yeah…right…
Franklin says
Let them all go, the world will be a more peaceful place
alfred says
they just did individually what F Hollande wanted to do with taxpayers money a few months ago.
Rose B says
Revoke their passports NOW! If they are still alive, let them stay where they chose to fight. That’s where their allegiance is.
robert wagner says
The Syrian insurgency may have started as a revolution to overthrow the Dictator Assad and bring Democracy to Syria. It is now the war of Sunni against Shiite as it is in Iraq, Tunisia, Libya, and now starting in full force in Lebanon. It would continue in Palestine, should there be no more Israel. Unless the Western Countries can keep a handle on it, the war will erupt in Europe and the USA.
Why is the West expected to get along with Islam, when the Muslims can’t get along with the Muslims?
Cindy McCoy says
I think at 15 and 16 you are not a kid!! A young adult yes, but a kid NO!!!!! They should be held and tried for terror. If you whoever you are from where ever you come from try to injure others you need to be punished. This world has a very evil spirit roaming the earth looking for those he can devour and destroy. Satan is very good at his job, all you have to do is look around and see!!!!!!!!
terry says
desentisisation is a hallmark of islam, moderate muslims are merely radicals in waiting,much as a comparison moderate christians or nominal christians are waiting for the revealing of scripture to recreate them (be born again)a radical christian sees the need to be christ like.the radical muslim sees the need to be mohammid like.on both sides of the spiritual coin there can be variations of the hard copy being put into practise,how that plays out can be seen world wide on the media daily.by their fruits you shall know them,Jesus is sinless and produced pure fruit and his true radical followers showed it in their lives .if we allow our children to become desentisised as the french two have been then we shall bear the consequences.