ISIS, a French engineering school, confuses Canadian customs

CASTRES - A school of engineers in southern France called ISIS said it ran into trouble with Canadian customs agents worried over a possible link to the extremist group Daesh which is often referred to as IS or ISIS in English. ISIS, a school specializing in IT engineering for the health sector in the town of Castres near Toulouse, is not to be confused with the so-called Islamic State group. The problem arose when the school ordered some satellite positioning equipment from Canada for one of its research programs. “Considered potentially sensitive equipment, the Canadian customs blocked it,” a senior member of staff at the college said on condition of anonymity. “It took two months of requests for the school to finally get its order.” He added that the college would quite like “to be done with this association” with the extremist group based in Iraq and Syria, but was not yet planning to change its name. - AFP