PARIS: A court here sentenced seven men Wednesday to prison terms of up to seven years on charges of helping to send French youths to fight in Iraq, ending a four-year investigation into what prosecutors asserted was a jihadist recruitment ring.
The men - five French, one Algerian and one Moroccan - were tried on charges that included criminal association with intent to commit terrorism.
Along with three French Muslims who died fighting U.S. forces in Iraq, the seven men were said to be members of what has become known as the "19th arrondissement cell," named after the working-class and heavily immigrant Paris district where most of them lived.
France has a militancy problem in its banlieues. They are like a simmering cauldron waiting to boil over.
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