After his arrest, investigators found the 12-year-old had been gorging on videos of decapitation and torture, including 1,739 jihadi videos and bomb-making tutorials.
The boy’s descent began with Quran searches and led to encrypted chats and ultraviolent propaganda from extremist groups like Islamic State. French prosecutor Paul-Edouard Lallois warned he risked becoming a “completely dehumanized soldier.”
Across Europe, minors are increasingly appearing on terror radars, with France’s anti-terror unit charging 19 minors in 2023 alone.
Extremist content is just a click away, with radicalization sometimes beginning through violent pornography or a fascination for gory images, leading to jihadi decapitations.
This is what you get when parents absent-mindedly assume handing their kid a smartphone when they’re noisy is all it takes to raise them.
100%, parents need to be involved in their kids life now more than ever, not treat them like a roommate. Kids need to be guided not given a phone/tablet to keep busy. But society doesn’t support this kind of parenting.
