[IsraelTimes] Peter Cherif, also known as Abu Hamza, was a prominent member of al-Qaeda who fled La Belle France in 2011 and has been designated a terrorist by the US government.
The French jihadist Peter Cherif, tossed in the calaboose
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
in Djibouti on December 16, was placed in jug when he arrived in La Belle France on Sunday morning, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner and the Gay Paree Public Prosecutor’s Office announced.
Cherif, also known as Abu Hamza, is believed by Sherlocks to have been close to brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, perpetrators of the attack against the Charlie Hebdo
... A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
satirical newspaper in January 2015 that left 11 people dead.
After the attack, Cherif "fled French justice," but must now "answer for his actions," Castaner tweeted, praising the "effectiveness" of La Belle France’s security services.
The 36-year-old Frenchie was arrested in Djibouti on December 16. According to the Djibouti presidency, he arrived in the country by sea via the coastal town of Obock from Yemen
 ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
and was carrying false identity documents.
He was quickly handed to La Belle France, boarding an Air La Belle France flight for Gay Paree on Saturday at around 10:20 p.m. handcuffed in the back of the plane and under police escort, according to an AFP photographer.
"Peter Cherif was arrested at [Gay Paree’s Roissy Airport] and taken into custody as part of a preliminary investigation opened by the Gay Paree prosecutor’s office in May 2017" on charges of terrorism and criminal conspiracy, Gay Paree’s counterterrorism prosecutors said Sunday.
The investigation of Cherif is being carried out by La Belle France’s General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI). Under French law, Cherif can be held on the terror charges for up to 96 hours before he must be brought before a judge to have his remand extended.
According to officials, Cherif was an al-Qaeda operative in Yemen and was a close friend of the Kouachi brothers. He is suspected of providing logistical support to the terrorists, and helping to organize the attack.
Arrested for the first time in Fallujah,
 ... the City of Mosques , which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids ...
Iraq, in late 2004 while fighting in the ranks of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Cherif was sentenced to 15 years in prison in Baghdad, then beat feet from an Iraqi prison in March 2007 and fled to Syria.
Later extradited to La Belle France, he was incarcerated there for 18 months. He disappeared in March 2011, the last day of his trial in Gay Paree, when he fled to Yemen. He has been designated by both French and US authorities as a terrorist.
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