Second Frenchman Identified in ISIS Terror Video

French authorities on Wednesday identified a second French citizen as taking part in a video that showed the murder of American aid worker Abdul-Rahman Peter Kassig. The anti-terrorist unit of the Paris Prosecutor's office issued a communique confirming the identity of the second Frenchman in a group of 16 executioners as Michael dos Santos, 22, from Champigny sur Marne, in the southeastern suburbs of Paris.

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Dos Santos is known to French intelligence services following an investigation into a network to recruit French nationals for jihad in Syria, the prosecutors office said. On Monday, Maxime Hauchard was the first Frenchman identified in the video showing a collective execution of Syrian prisoners, as well as the killing of western hostage Peter Kassig.

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The video, released Sunday, showed the severed head of Kassig and the beheadings of more than a dozen Syrian soldiers. Dos Santos, like Hauchaud, grew up in a French family and converted to Islam via the Internet. The men seemed to have been recruited in 2013, when a large number of young Frenchmen left for Syria, officials said. Their names popped up in an investigation when French police dismantled a recruitment network.

More than 1,600 French nationals are involved with ISIS, including 376 in the combat zone, French officials have said.

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