Latifa Ibn Ziaten knows a thing or two about terrorism.

Her son, Imad, a soldier in the French military, was shot dead in 2012 by Mohammed Merah, who killed six other people, including three children, at a Jewish school in Toulouse.

Now, as France emerges from the trauma of its worst terrorist attacks in more than 50 years, she says children of immigrants in poor, crime-ridden ghettos need a chance at a future to keep them from falling prey to those peddling radical Islam.