Bulgaria has arrested a Frenchman wanted in his own country for terrorism and who allegedly planned to take his son to receive a radical Islamist upbringing in Syria, prosecutors said Monday. Fritz Jolie Joaquin, 29, a French citizen of Haitian origin, was arrested while trying to cross Bulgaria's south-eastern Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint with Turkey on a bus on January 1.
He was initially wanted on a European arrest warrant issued by a court in France following allegations by his wife that he had kidnapped their three-year-old son on December 30, the prosecution said. According to the wife, he was planning to take the child to Syria to educate it in a jihadist community.