French authorities have named two citizens who appear on a beheading video released by the self-proclaimed "Islamic State" at the weekend, while also pledging further jets to the aerial campaign against the group, reports GHN based on DW.
Public prosecutors in France said on Wednesday that it had identified two citizens, both converts to Islam who left to fight in the Syrian civil war, in a propaganda video released by the "Islamic State" terror group. At least 17 Syrian prisoners and US aid worker Peter Kassig (pictured above) were executed in the video.
One of the men shown herding prisoners prior to their execution was identified as Maxime Hauchard on Monday, and the state prosecutor's office on Wednesday named 22-year-old Mickael Dos Santos as another French citizen in the film.
"In addition to Maxime Hauchard, precise and consistent clues have been collected during an investigation allowing us to identify the presence of a second Frenchman: Mickael Dos Santos," the prosecutors' statement said.