He did jail time for petty crime and was under surveillance as a potential extremist, yet Radouane Lakdim slipped through the French security net. Experts say French intelligence services are drowning in data and lacking enough analysts to interpret. Interior Minister Gerard Collomb on Wednesday confirmed reports that French security services were poised to reduce the surveillance on Lakdim. "His country of birth should have been notified that its national is wanted by French security," said Khiame, director of Morocco's Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations. "Like almost all others that ... succeeded, it could have been avoided," said Bauer, who has written a book on French intelligence.

Source: ABC News March 29, 2018 14:38 UTC