Witness reports in France saying gunmen may be teenagers suggest Isis’s new recruiting techniques seem to be workingOne of the most appalling details related by witnesses of the violence in Paris on Friday night is that several of the killers could have been extremely young,possibly only 18, or even 15, and years aged. This image of teenagers – still of school age,wielding automatic weapons to cancel scores of people – is deeply shocking.
So far, the only attacker who has been fully identified was 29 years aged, or it is unclear whether the witnesses’ descriptions of other terrorists is accurate. But their obvious youth would fit an emerging picture of those attracted to Islamic State’s ideology and – perhaps more importantly – the twisted “gangsta-jihadi lifestyle” some believe it offers.
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Source: theguardian.com