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A French national has been detained Monday at the Kapitan Andreevo border crossing point on suspicion of terrorism, according to the press office of Bulgaria’s prosecuting authority.
Fritz Jolie Joaquin, 29 (spelled Fritz-Joly Joachin according to some reports), a French national, had two European Arrest Warrants issued against him, including one for participating in a criminal organization with a terrorist aim and one for kidnapping his three-year-old son and smuggling him out of the country.
The man was detained on January 1 while attempting to cross the Bulgarian-Turkish border at the Kapitan Andreevo border crossing point.
Joaquin’s wife had told the police that the man was seeking to take the 3-year-old boy to Syria to raise him in a jihadist community, according to reports of Reuters and AFP.
According to unconfirmed reports of Bulgarian media outlets, the man was linked to one of the Kouachi brothers who carried out the terror attack against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
According to a media statement of a Haskovo-based court, the French national asked to be extradited to France.
A 37-year-old man from Stara Zagora has been detained after physically assaulting his two daughters
In the ongoing trial at the Central Criminal Court in London, the prosecutor, Alison Morgan, emphasized that the Bulgarians accused of spying for Russia
A man was arrested after stabbing another driver following a traffic accident in Sofia
A Bulgarian man, 39-year-old Mariyan Grudev, has been sentenced to life in prison in England for rape and attempted rape
The Sofia City Court has ordered a 22-year-old woman, who stabbed three passers-by in the capital, to be placed in the psychiatric clinic at Lovech prison for a 30-day examination
Pre-trial proceedings have been launched for attempted murder following a knife attack in Sofia that left three men injured
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