The numbers of disenfranchised Europeans heading to war zones in Syria and Iraq to join the ranks of ISIS are increasing. Who are these people that are choosing to enter a war zone in a foreign country and stand alongside vicious extremists? How does ISIS persuade them to leave Western comforts for basic and dangerous conditions?
Our journalists were able to infiltrate the terrorist network and make contact with the recruiters and their apprentice fighters. This film will take us from France to Turkey and all the way along the chain that provides fighters for the jihad.
The propaganda promises dream villas with swimming pools or Hollywood style action to impressionable and marginalized men and women living in poor neighbourhoods. They are just looking for a way out but these naïve youngsters will find the brutal reality very different from what they were led to believe. Fighting a cruel war of crucifixions and beheadings for the men whist the women who marry the jihadists will face a life of seclusion and bullying.
Many European ISIS fighters any are currently in the process of returning home. Who are they? How can we track them? Do they pose a new threat?
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Almost all of the terrorists from the 13th November attacks were French or Belgian, ranging between 20 and 31 years of age. How could these young men have injured 500 people and murdered 130 innocent victims in cold blood?
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Why are Europeans, children of immigrants like Coulibaly or the Kouachis brothers, attacking their countries of birth?
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