The Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins announced on Wednesday that a second Frenchman has been spotted in the video released by the Islamic State of Iraq in the Levant (ISIL) militants during the beheading of Peter Kassig and other captives.

The first Frenchman identified to have joined forces with the insurgents is Maxime Hauchard and the second was identified as a certain Michael Dos Santos. Molins pressed that the government had precise and consistent elements collected for them to assure that there was indeed a second Frenchman who joined the militants.

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Dos Santos is reportedly a 22-year-old man from east of Paris specifically in Champigny-sur-Marne. Reports say that he has converted to Islam and left the country to fly to Syria back in August 2013.

Dos Santos does not have any criminal record, however, he is wanted by the French authorities as according to the intelligence services, he is to be charged with having ties with terrorists.

Both Dos Santos and Hauchard have appeared in the 15-minute video showing the beheading of the American hostage who was an aid worker but was a former member of the army. The other 17 men that Kassig was with when he was beheaded were reportedly pilots and officers that were loyal to the Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.

According to a lawmaker from France, Sebastien Pietrasanta, only fifty percent of the 1,130 citizens from France were originally under surveillance by the intelligence services. He pressed that this fifty percent is actually the perfect example of the phenomenon that France is facing. He is referring to these youth coming from a small village and well-integrated families with decent jobs but were radicalized by the Internet and got encouraged to convert then leave the country.

According to data released, French citizens who join the ISIL militants are from middle class families, atheists or under the age of 21.  

Out of the 1,130 French citizens who have either traveled to Syria and Iraq or have joined the militants, there have been 36 of them already killed in the waging war.

This has come as an irony since France is one of the countries helping the United States led coalition to eradicate the militants. 

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