“Many young French jihadist fighters who joined the Islamic State militants have started questioning what they are really doing with them. Their lawyers say they want to come home but dread possible criminal charges, France’s Le Figaro has reported.
“If I go back to France, what will happen to me? Can I avoid prison? “- these are the questions young jihadists ask their lawyers and families. Their messages were exclusively leaked to France’s Le Figaro newspaper which says that it contacted the extremists’ lawyers.
Some of the “IS newbies” complain they have been misled into journeying to the Middle East.
“I have done almost nothing except distributing clothes and food. I also helped clean weapons and transported the bodies of fighters killed in the clashes. Winter is beginning. It’s getting very hard,“ wrote one of the militants from a base in Aleppo in northern Syria.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola (TYT University) break it down.
*Read more here:
http://rt.com/news/210759-france-jihadists-want-home/