British counter-terrorism police are investigating after five men were arrested near a base used by US forces in southwest England.
Accused of serving as an executioner for the Islamic State organization, Othman Garrido was convicted by Paris's special assize court with a security period of two-thirds of his sentence.
The assizes court handed down a thirty-year sentence against this former jihadist fighter, while prosecutors had sought life imprisonment.
Paris's special assizes court found the Montpellier native guilty of murders committed as part of an organized criminal group during a double public execution in 2015 in Syria, as well as terrorist criminal association.
About fifty French nationals transferred from Syria face Iraqi justice starting Sunday on terrorism charges related to the Islamic State.
A minor suspected of planning a knife attack at a Lyon school in the name of far-right ideology has been brought before a counterterrorism judge.
Tried by Paris's special assize court for beheadings committed in Syria, this 32-year-old from Montpellier claimed Friday to have discovered "a different vision of life" in prison, while facing a possible life sentence.
The minor, suspected of planning a knife attack at a high school, was arrested Thursday and brought before an antiterrorism judge Friday.
Around fifty French fighters from the Islamic State group face the death penalty before Iraqi courts, while their lawyers are calling for their repatriation.
The court found that several videos by the polemicist presented the October 7 Hamas attack "in a very favorable light."
The jihadist from Montpellier Othman Garrido, on trial since Monday for his participation in beheadings in Syria, invokes the influence of his Salafist and violent father.
Members of the Islamic State group currently imprisoned in Iraq have appealed to the European Court of Human Rights to challenge their detention and demand to be tried in France.
A counterterrorism expert analyzes how the organization has evolved two and a half decades after the 2001 attacks.