How did they target the group though, did they just scan the internet traffic and said, oh wow there is a group of people who only talk through Signal, or were there another precedence?
According to this Wikipedia page [1] that details the case they (or at least some) were put under surveillance when they returned to France after they had spent time in Syrian Kurdistan to fight against IS with Kurdish YPG [2].
mytailorisrich|2 years ago
[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affaire_du_8_d%C3%A9cembre_202...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Defense_Units
jazzyjackson|2 years ago