FRANCE is still Islamic State’s (ISIS) number one target and 2017 will be worse than this year, an anti-terror expert has warned.
France will remain ISIS's number one target, a terrorism expert has warned
Marc Trévidic said he expects 2017 to be a “dreadful” year for the French as the evil terror group step up its French onslaught.
The former anti-terrorism judge said with the upcoming presidential election next April “the temptation to organise a terrorist attack in France will simply be too great for ISIS to resist.”
Mr Trévidic also spoke about the first time he met Adel Kermiche, one of the teenagers who murdered Jacques Hamel.
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The 84-year-old priest was brutally killed by Kermiche as he celebrated mass in Normandy last month.
Kermiche and his accomplice, Abdel Malik Petitjean, slit the priest’s throat in front of his horrified parishioners.
Mr Trévidic said: “I had in front of me someone whose sole concern was joining Islamic State. He had this twinkle in his eye whenever he spoke about them, and from that moment onwards, we knew that in his mind, there would be no going back.”
He added that Kermiche was attempting to tempt girls as young as 14 to join ISIS.
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He said: “He had just turned 18 at the time of his first arrest, but he would surround himself with people that were much younger. He would chat to lots young girls, aged 14 to 16, and try and convince them to travel with him to Syria.”
The former anti-terror judge also admitted that some of the people he’d met throughout the course of his career “had given him the chills,” and that he’d dealt with five or six people whose behaviour he’d found “deeply worrying.”
