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| Sleepy town: At least 17 men from the town of Lunel in southern France have reportedly travelled to fight in Syria |
- 17 men from town of Lunel have joined Al-Qaeda or Islamic State in Syria
- The town's would-be jihadists allegedly attend a Mosque in the suburbs
- Five arrested in anti-terror raids on Abrivado neighbourhood last month
- The area has become notorious for producing fanatics heading to Syria
At least 17 men from a small town in southern France have reportedly joined Al-Qaeda or Islamic State to fight in Syria.
Three of the men from Lunel, which has a population of just 27,500, have even taken their wives or girlfriends with them. One of them even gave birth in the war zone.
Six men from the town have died, which accounts for 10 per cent of the French jihadists killed in the conflict, Adam Sage wrote in the Times.
Five people were arrested during anti-terror raids in the Abrivado neighbourhood only last month, according to France 24.
The French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the people arrested - aged between 26 and 44 - were 'suspected of active involvement in a jihadist network'.
He also claimed the network's members 'were recruited and indoctrinated, and who also indoctrinated and recruited several other French youngsters from Lunel'.
The town's mayor Claude Arnaud had previously doubted the existence of such a network and suspected the men were 'self-radicalised' by online propaganda.
Herault regional police office estimated as many as 50 young people had travelled to Iraq and Syria from the Languedoc-Roussillon in which Lunel lies.
Local officials including Mayor Arnaud are struggling to understand why their quiet town has become a source of radicalisation.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2943792/The-town-went-jihad-Fanatics-sleepy-French-neighbourhood-fighting-alongside-Islamic-State-Syria-coming-radicalise-youngsters.html
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