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Suspected French jihadis surrender to police after security failures

PARIS/TOULOUSE - Three men suspected of joining Islamist militants in Syria gave themselves in to French authorities on Wednesday after a day of high confusion which exposed security shortcomings in France, including poor collaboration with NATO ally Turkey.

 

Officials wrongly claimed on Tuesday the three French nationals - who include the brother-in-law of a gunman who killed seven people in France in 2012 - had already been arrested before admitting they were still at large.

 

The lawyer for Gael Maurize, one of the men, said they had handed themselves in at a village police station after driving some 170 km (105 miles) northwest of Marseille airport where they had landed. Authorities had been waiting for them in Paris.

 

"The three men handed themselves in because they want to be listened to by the authorities," lawyer Apollinaire Legros-Gimbert told Reuters, adding the men had been in touch with French authorities for several months before their return. "They were stunned not to have been questioned yesterday."

 


פרסום ראשון: 09.24.14, 15:31