Relative of Charlie Hebdo killer agrees to extradition

August 11, 2016 02:16

The brother-in-law of one of the Islamic extremists behind the January 2015 attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday agreed to his extradition from Bulgaria but denied being a "terrorist".

"I want an immediate extradition to France," Mourad Hamyd, 20, told an extradition hearing in Sofia, calling his arrest an "injustice... I have been declared a terrorist on the basis of suspicions".

Hamyd was arrested last month in Turkey while allegedly trying to enter Syria to join jihadists. He was handed over to Bulgarian authorities on July 28 and France issued a European arrest warrant.

The warrant said that Hamyd, brother-in-law of Cherif Kouachi, was wanted for "conspiracy for preparation of acts of terrorism".

Jihadist brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi gunned down eight Charlie staff as well as several others in and around the building in the assault, which began three days of terror in Paris.

The warrant however makes no mention of Hamyd being suspected of having had any involvement in the attack.

He was questioned and freed shortly after that attack after being wrongly identified on social media as being one of the three killers.

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