SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — New details show the arrest in Bulgaria of a French citizen with ties to the attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper in Paris followed a tip from his sister.
The arrest warrant issued by a French court for Mourad Hamyd was based on his sister Khadija's report to police that her brother had boarded a train across Europe to Bulgaria, even though he had told her he would travel to Morocco.
The warrant, which was made available to the AP on Tuesday, said: "This route corresponds with the route that is usually chosen by the jihadist volunteers that want to join the Islamic State group in Syria or Iraq."
Hamyd is the brother-in-law of one of the men who attacked Charlie Hebdo.
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