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Francois Mori

Brother-in-law of Charlie Hebdo attacker arrested while travelling to Syria

Mourad Hamyd had said he was shocked by the 2015 killings.

A RELATIVE OF one of the jihadist killers of journalists at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has been arrested in Turkey on his way to Syria, a judicial source told AFP.

Mourad Hamyd, brother-in-law of Cherif Kouachi who was behind the January 2015 attack in Paris that killed 12, was detained in Turkey last month on suspicion of seeking to enter Syria, the source said.

Hamyd, wrongly identified on social media in the aftermath of the attack as being one of three Charlie Hebdo killers, was denied entry to Turkey and sent to a detention centre in Bulgaria on 28 July, the source added in confirming a French media report.

The source said French anti-terrorist investigators are preparing a European arrest warrant for Hamyd, whose sister was Cherif Kouachi’s wife.

Kouachi carried out the Charlie Hebdo killings with his brother Said.

Hamyd came under initial suspicion of acting as the brothers’ getaway driver and he was briefly detained before being released without charge.

He later told AFP in an interview he was shocked by the killings, which he described as “a horrible crime” and described himself as a normal student living with his parents. He added he barely had any contact with Cherif Kouachi.

According to a July tally by French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, France is home to more than 2,100 people — French nationals or foreigners — known to have links to Syrian and Iraqi Islamist groups.

Valls added that 203 of them who have spent time in those countries have returned to France.

© – AFP, 2016

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    Apr 18th 2023, 7:17 PM

    I know this is a copy and paste from Press Association but please, Journal.ie, the name Derry is just fine.Your Irish readers don’t need to see the “official” name in the first paragraph.

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    Apr 18th 2023, 7:44 PM

    Londonderry?

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    Apr 18th 2023, 8:11 PM

    @johnbrady: NI budget bigger than our’s so I think they’re entitled to that moniker.

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    Apr 18th 2023, 8:36 PM

    Nobody is going to push the DUP in into anything , they can say NO all on their own.

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    Apr 18th 2023, 8:55 PM

    They are nothing but a bunch of Drama Queens !!

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    Apr 18th 2023, 8:34 PM

    No, simply calling it Derry is not fine. Both sides need recognition so it’s Londonderry, Derry/Londonderry, L/Derry, Stroke City or something similar. Really annoying when rte refer to it only as Derry without also mentioning the correct official name of Londonderry.

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    Apr 18th 2023, 9:38 PM

    @Richard Ahern: It’s almost as annoying as someone using rte instead of RTÉ, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, the correct official name of the broadcaster. Fadas matter!

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    Apr 19th 2023, 2:13 AM

    @Richard Ahern: strange thing to let annoy you

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    Apr 18th 2023, 9:27 PM

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    Apr 18th 2023, 9:32 PM

    @Joe x: looks like someone took offence to my suggestion of holding back salaries until Stormobt is reestablished and they are doing the jobs they are elected to do…..represent their constituents

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