(AFP) A Bulgarian court on Monday authorised the transfer of a man convicted of terrorism to Belgium, where he was sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison in 2015.
Yassine Lachiri was arrested in Bulgaria on November 10 after entering the country illegally from Turkey.
Lachiri, of Moroccan descent, reportedly has links to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, one of the 2015 Paris attack planners.
Brussels had issued a European arrest warrant for Lachiri after his 2015 conviction, which was part of a larger trial of those involved in a jihadist recruitment network in Belgium.
Belgian press reports say that Lachiri was stripped of his Belgian nationality in absentia in 2020.
