"Handful" of French nationals have joined Al-Qaeda linked groups

Just a handful  ... not to worry.  All's good, all's fine, all's dandy with the Frenchies.

...French police arrested four suspected   Islamist militants near Paris on Tuesday as part of an investigation into the recruitment of volunteers by al Qaeda insurgents in Mali, Interior Minister Manuel Valls said.....

.....Valls said police had stopped several individuals trying to travel from France to the Sahel - a vast swathe of semi-arid territory stretching from Senegal in the west to Eritrea in the east - known as a base for traffickers and Islamist militants.
He said a "handful" of French nationals had already joined al Qaeda-linked groups......