Didn’t the U.N. ban child soldiers?
Via JPost
Two French 15-yearolds have left France to join Islamist militants in the fight against Syrian President Bashar Assad, the Toulouse prosecutor and a father of one of the boys said on Friday.
“I’ve informed the Paris anti-terrorist prosecutor because the two boys made their intention clear that they would travel to Syria via Turkey,” prosecutor Michel Valet told Reuters.
Emmanuel Navon, director of the communications and political science department at Jerusalem Orthodox College, told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that “the French government has been trying to hide the phenomenon [of jihadism] in France and are aware [of it] since the Toulouse massacre.”
In 2012, a French-Algerian radical Islamist Mohammed Merah killed four French Jews and three French Muslim soldiers in Toulouse and Montauban before being killed by police.
The father of Hakim, one of the two 15-year-old boys from the southwestern French city of Toulouse, told BFM TV his son had left a note on January 6 explaining he was going to join the jihad, or holy war, against Assad. He said Hakim left cash behind to cover the cost of a plane ticket to Turkey which he bought with his father’s credit card.
According to the father, who did not give his name, the boy called the family three days ago to say he was in danger in Syria and that he would not call again for a month. He added that if he did not call by then, the family should assume he was dead and they would next meet in paradise, his father said.