Bulgaria arrests man linked to Hebdo suspect

  13 January 2015    Read: 958
Bulgaria arrests man linked to Hebdo suspect
Bulgarian authorities said Tuesday they have arrested a French citizen believed to have links to one of the brothers suspected of killing 12 people in an attack at the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
Fritz-Joly Joachin, 29, was detained under two European arrest warrants, one citing his alleged links to a terrorist organization, and a second for allegedly kidnapping his 3-year-old son and smuggling him out of the country, said Darina Slavova, regional prosecutor of the southern province of Haskovo.

Joachin, a French citizen of Haitian origin, "was in contact several times" with Cherif Kouachi," Slavova told news agency AFP. She said the contact took place before Joachin left France on Dec. 30, a week before the Hebdo attack.

The Hebdo attack triggered three days of terror in France, climaxing Friday in the fatal shooting of Chérif Kouachi, 32, and his brother, Said, 34, by security forces in a town north of Paris, and the killing of an associate, Amedy Coulibaly, 32, suspected of killing four people before taking hostages in a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris.

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