French authorities on Sunday handed preliminary terrorism charges to a fugitive extremist who is suspected of fighting US forces in Iraq and helping to organize the 2015 shooting attack at the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people were murdered, reports The Associated Press.
Peter Cherif, who recently was arrested in the former French colony of Djibouti and expelled to France, was immediately taken into custody and charged upon his arrival Sunday at Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport, the Paris prosecutor's office said.
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