The Two Frenchman ISIS Executioners who Butchered 18 Syrian Soldiers are Revealed

A second Frenchman was today identified among the Islamic State killers suspected of butchering 18 Syrian soldiers in a video that also showed the severed head of US aid worker Peter Kassig.

He is Michael Dos Santos, a 22-year-old originally from the Paris suburb of Champigny-sur-Marne, in the Val-de-Marne department.

Dos Santos, a French national of Portuguese origin, can be seen standing alongside Jihadi John in the sickening murder video released by ISIS at the weekend.

Michael Dos Santos (pictured left, alongside Jihadi John

He uses the nom de guerre Abu Uthman and is seen in the video wearing military fatigues, a black hat and a thick beard.

Paris prosecutors have now opened a criminal inquiry into both Dos Santos and Maxime Hauchard, a 22-year-old from Normandy who is also in the video.

Dos Santos was known by the French intelligence agencies before he travelled to Syria earlier this year, and had frequently posted jihadi slogans on social media.

Number 6 is 22-year-old French former Catholic Maxime
 Hauchard

President Francois Hollande confirmed that at least ‘two Frenchmen’ were in the video which caused outrage around the world.

Yesterday notorious Belgian Muslim extremist Abdelmajid Gharmaoui was also identified as being among the the cold-blooded killers clearly seen in the latest Islamic State murder video.

Gharmaoui, a 28-year-old Belgian from the Flemish town of Vilvoorde, is known to have been a member of the radical group Sharia4Belgium and have links to radical groups across Europe.

The militant - who now uses the nom de guerre Abu Dujanna - is pictured wearing battle fatigues and a thick black beard as his fellow militants stand over their victims.

He left for Syria in October 2012, saying he wanted to fight Jihad, and was last placed in the village of Dabiq, where the video was recorded.

Hans Bonte, the mayor of Vilvoorde, said the 'rumour had been circulating for some months' that Gharmaoui was fighting in Syria fighting, adding that the kind of 'heinous acts seen on the video are hugely worrying'.

Mr Bonte said there was a huge local problem with 'youths being radicalised' in Vilvoorde, adding that he is introducing a bill to withdraw the travel documents of suspected jihadists who want to travel to war-torn countries such as Iraq and Syria.

The men were identified as ISIS militants were forced to withdraw from Iraq's largest oil refinery after the country's security forces recaptured it.

The success is considered the Baghdad government’s most important military success since the jihadis seized most of northern and western Iraq during the summer.

The ISIS militants withdrew from the refinery - which produced 75,000 barrels of oil every day before being shut down - and took shelter in towns and villages east of the River Tigris, The Independent reported.

The fighters are understood to have left a large number of booby traps in and around the facility before, however, which Iraqi security forces are currently in the process of dismantling.

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