by David Thomson · ISBN 9782021349399
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Since 2012, more than a thousand French citizens have left to join jihadist groups in Syria. Around 700 are still there, nearly 200 have already been killed, and just as many have chosen to return. David Thomson has met these "Revenants" (Returnees). He is one of their best connoisseurs, has followed them for years, sometimes knew them before they left, and maintains direct and regular relationships with them. Bilel, Yassin, Zoubeir, Lena... While they have different profiles, they also have many things in common. Some have returned disgusted by the violence of the Syrian conflict, others are disappointed by their experience, but not repentant. Others return wounded or psychologically damaged. Most are still in prison, where their number creates problems that seem insoluble today. Some, finally, have returned to carry out new terrorist actions on French soil. All focus the attention of intelligence services due to the lasting threat they pose to the national territory.
David Thomson is a British film critic and historian based in the United States, and the author of more than 20 books.
