All that surveillance and he still managed to do what he did. Still, at least they dealt with him swiftly in the end and the world's a bit better for it. Good riddance.
Islamic State wants to establish Islam as a political ruler of one or more countries, so that everyne there would need to profess belief.
The Evangelical right would love to do the same in the USA and doubtless elsewhere.
Thank goodness France is a secular state - but then, so is the USA!
naomi24 well the thing is faith can be wrong so yes there we have it if someone has faith in a swing that looks like it's help up by sellotape and they swing on it and it breaks their faith was wrong
The fact that the man cannot be named because of court suppression orders suggests to me that the authorities may well have other like-minded individuals in their sights.