(AFP) A man convicted of terrorism in Belgium has been detained as he entered Bulgaria through its southeastern border with Turkey, prosecutors announced Thursday.
Border police and state security agents intercepted the man on Wednesday in a special operation, the prosecution said in a statement.
He is “sought in relation to a 20-year jail sentence for terrorism handed to him by a court in an EU country” and a terrorism sentence of nine years and five months in Turkey, it added.
Prosecutors when contacted by AFP declined to give further details.
But Bulgarian media named the man as Yassine Lachiri, reportedly close to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, believed to have been one of the 2015 Paris attack planners.
