anchor: we were listening to the french prime minister devoping . in incidents of this nature, facts change by the hour if not the minute. joining me now is ththththththtt been confirmed that he has claimed allegiance to the islamic state group. it does come at a time when one has the gup is clos to being routed in parts of syria it occupied. >> it is true their zone of operations has shrunk spectacularly. however, french authorities veve been stressing the last few months the threat is still very real and should not be taken lightly. in fact, there was a big interview in french media with he was talkinge prosecutorat t, about the nature of this threat highlighting two spepecific dimensions. one was s returning jihadistsrom syriria aniraq. he gave figures. year, just2017, last under 180 french citizens who had been fighting with jihadist groups had come back from syria and iraq. andwo had comome back in early 2018. obobviously, this s could hahave there may have been even more returnees. the french state prosecutors said let's not be naÏve. they say