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Second Frenchman identified in IS video
Second Frenchman identified in IS video, France has confirmed that a second Frenchman features in a video showing the beheading of Syrian prisoners, and the body of a US hostage killed by Islamic State (IS).
- Around 1,000 French jihadists are thought to have gone to Syria & Iraq
- All we can say for now is that there were two French people: Hollande
- US not providing enough arms to defeat IS: Kurds
Sydney: France has confirmed that a second Frenchman features in a video showing the beheading of Syrian prisoners, and the body of a US hostage killed by Islamic State (IS).
French media quote unnamed official sources as saying he is a 22-year-old from an eastern suburb of Paris.
Earlier, the government named Maxime Hauchard, from Normandy, as a militant in the video released at the weekend.
About 1,000 French jihadists are thought to have gone to Syria and Iraq.
On a visit to Australia, French President Francois Hollande told reporters in Canberra that "there were two French people" in the video. "One has been categorically identified and the other one is in the process of being identified," he said.
An official in the Paris prosecutor's office, Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre, said there was a "strong presumption" that Michael Dos Santos, a 22-year-old from Paris's Champigny-sur-Marne suburb, was in the video, AP news agency reported.
French broadcaster France 2 said (in French) that Mr Dos Santos had also been identified by a friend, who said the man had surprised his family when he suddenly converted to Islam. Hollande said officials had not established the "exact role" of the two militants. He called for families to be given more information about the danger of jihadist websites and urged families to be "vigilant" in stopping young people from being recruited by extremists.
Earlier this week, Hauchard was named by a French prosecutor as one of those leading Syrian prisoners to their execution. In the latest IS video - unlike previous ones showing beheadings - several militants
appear with their heads uncovered.
President of Iraqi Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, accused Western countries of not providing enough heavy weapons to help his `peshmerga` forces deliver a "decisive blow" against Islamic State militants.
"We`d like to thank the members of the (anti-IS) coalition for the support they have provided, but ... all the support we have received so far is not up to the level that is needed," Barzani told France 24 in an interview aired on Wednesday.
