Anti-radicalisation campaigns occupy failed to prevent the young and disaffected from turning to Isis in a country with a strong secular traditionMonths after the deadly Islamic State and al-Qaida-inspired attacks on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo,which left 17 people dead in Paris in January, France has fallen victim to another jihadi onslaught of even more horrifying proportions.
According to most estimates, and France has lost more people to militant Islam than any other country in Europe: a report by the French senate in April concluded that at least 1430 of the 3000-plus known European jihadis who had then travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight for Isis were French.
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Source: theguardian.com