About 930 France’s residents and citizens, including 60 women, are either already fighting in Iraq and Syria or are planning to go there, the country’s interior minister said. Dozens of women and children were stopped on their way there.
“930 French citizens or foreigners usually resident in France are today involved in jihad in Iraq and Syria,”France’s Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told Le Journal du Dimanche.
According to Cazeneuve, at least 350 people “are on the ground, including 60 women.”
“Around 180 have left from Syria and 170 are en route for the zone,” he said, adding that about 230 people want to get to the areas with Islamic militants.
Also, at least 36 have already died fighting alongside the ISIS jihadists. These numbers are not included in the 930 figure, he added.