Second Frenchman seen in Islamic State video

France has confirmed that a second Frenchman features in a video showing the beheading of Syrian prisoners and a US hostage by Islamic State, IS.

French official sources say the man in the video is a 22-year-old from an eastern suburb of Paris.

Earlier, the government named Maxime Hauchard, from Normandy as one of the militants in the video, which was released over the weekend.

Concerns about the involvement of French citizens in the conflict were heightened after a gun attack earlier this year on a Jewish museum in Brussels.

The attack which killed four people was carried out by 29-year-old Mehdi Nemmouche, a Frenchman who had fought as a jihadist in Syria.

About one thousand French jihadists are thought to have gone to Syria and Iraq.

BBC