PARIS: Despite its reputation as a jet set Riviera resort, Nice has become a hotbed of radical Islam in recent years and home to one of France's main jihadists recruiters, security sources told Agence France-Presse.

Only last month Oumar Diaby gave an interview in Syria to French television where he claimed he was at the head of a "katiba" or cell of some 30 French fighters, mostly from in and around the city.

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