One of France's most-wanted terrorist, who was a former choir boy, known as Kevin G has reportedly surrendered himself over to the police. 24-year-old Kevin G, who was a Chief headhunter for Islamic State, handed himself over, claiming that he has been reformed.
Kevin converted to Islam a decade ago and is believed to have been in charge of getting young French people to sign up to terrorism in Syria and Iraq. He spent four years in Syria before leaving with his four French wives and their six children for Turkey last year. His wives were arrested and sent back to France.
Blacklisted by the United Nations back in 2014 as a wanted terrorist, Kevin G has now been charged with financing terrorism and recruiting jihadist for both AL-Qaeda and Islamic State. He claims to have turned his back on terrorism and walked away from ISIS because he feared being killed.
Although his case is being handled by the Paris prosecutor, officials must now determine whether he has genuinely reformed or whether it was a deliberate ploy to return to Europe as part of a sleeper cell.
Around 900 French nationals are believed to have travelled to join IS groups in either Syria or Iraq, 200 of whom have been killed, reports France24.
A third of the 5,000 European jihadists who traveled to fight in Syria and Iraq are now back in Europe, with some on “specific missions,” according to an EU report released last December.
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