French authorities are investigating two teenage girls after they allegedly planned to join jihadis in Syria, according to The Associated Press.
The two girls, ages 15 and 17, are under investigation for "criminal association in relation with a terrorist enterprise," according to AP via the Paris prosecutor's office.
The prosecutor's office said the girls, one from Tarbes and the other from Lyon, "are under strict judicial control," though it is unknown if they are back in the custody of their parents.
Jihadi groups go to extreme measures, including mass murder, oppression, intimidation, terrorism, assassination, torture and forced religious conversion, because of their fundamentalist belief system, according to Faith Freedom.
It isn't the first time French teens have tried to join jihadi groups. Back in January, two French teens were brought back from Turkey after attempting to join jihadists in Syria, according to France's The Local. One of the teens, just 15 years old, was charged with having connection to a "terrorist enterprise."
Currently, there are around 60 investigations in France into would-be jihadis or people that have left to join them in Syria, and about 900 French people are involved in the terrorism enterprise, according to AP.
"This is a phenomenon which worries me because they represent a potential danger when they return to our soil," Interior Minister Manuel Valls said, according to France 24. "We have to be extremely attentive."
