Nice attack: IS recruits ‘born again’ on joining terror group

The Nice killer was one of many terrorist recruits who were petty criminals, with little interest in Islam, a leading expert has said.

Jean-Pierre Filiu, professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Sciences Po, Paris School of International Affairs, said that many recruits were “born again” when they enter Islamic State (IS).

He told the Irish Examiner this was not a slow process of radicalisation, but a “brutal shock”.