A 14-year-old French girl is in a care home after being stopped at Lyon airport, apparently heading for Syria to wage jihad. She is the third French minor to be found trying to fight the so-called holy war against Bashar al-Assad's government.
Earlier this week the girl, from the French city of Grenoble, told her parents via text message that she had been selected to join the jihad war in Syria and had run away from home.
She was detained before boarding a plane bound with a one-way ticket for Istanbul, from where she intended to go to the Syrian border.
Investigators describe her as "heavily indoctrinated" and say that she keeps repeating that she was going to Turkey as a tourist.
After being picked up on Monday, she was placed in the home on Tuesday but managed to run away, only to be caught and returned there.
Anthropologist Dounia Bouzar, author of the book Defusing radical Islam, says the indoctrination of vulnerable teens has increased through the use of social networks and the internet .
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