A video released by ISIL fighters purportedly showing them burning their French passports has provoked much discussion in the French media.<br /><br />On Wednesday, French authorities named a second Frenchman in a video showing the killing of Syrian prisoners as 22-year-old Mickael Dos Santos.<br /><br />Terrorism expert Jean-Charles Brisard said: “He’s a convert, we know that he has been in that area for a long time, for a year and a half, since August 2013. He learned how to use arms, he became ultra-radical and we also know that he is extremely violent. We can see it through what he posted on the social networks: he mentions the threat of terrorist attacks against France, he calls for jihad, and he often mentions Mohamed Merah’s name.”<br /><br />Dos Santos, who was of Portuguese origin but born in France, was a recent convert to Islam.<br /><br />In the Paris suburb of Champigny-sur-Marne where he lived, locals said they were shocked and that his behaviour was against Islamic teachings.<br /><br />One man said: “I never imagined he would be capable of doing things like that.”<br /><br />“For us he is a murderer, because that’s not Islam, Islam is peace,” added another.<br /><br />About 1,000 French jihadists are thought to have gone to Syria and Iraq.
