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 says.
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 says.
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 center in Bulgaria on July 28, the source adds.
In this image from an amateur video recorded on January 7, 2015, masked gunmen get into a car moments after shooting a police officer outside the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. (AP/Jordi Mir)
The source said French anti-terrorist investigators are preparing a European arrest warrant for Hamyd.
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.”
— AFP
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