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How Brighton’s gangs became increasingly radicalised

25 April 2020

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25 April 2020

9:00 AM

No Return: The True Story of How Martyrs Are Made Mark Townsend

Guardian Faber, pp.368, 12.99

Between October 2013 and January 2014, five teenaged boys from Brighton, three of them brothers from a family called Deghayes, travelled to Syria to join Jabhat al-Nusra, an Islamist militia and one of the main jihadist groups fighting the Syrian army. A dozen more young people from Brighton were also eager to go.

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