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BRUSSELS, Jan 31 (KUNA) -- France has extradited to Belgium one person who was detained in France on suspicion of involvement in a terrorist group.
According to Belgian media reports Saturday, the suspect who was not named, was arrested on his arrival in Belgium Friday evening.
The 32-year-old reportedly traveled with his brother to France on 15 January, the day Belgian police raided a house in Verviers in eastern Belgium and shot dead two terror suspects and arrested another.
The two brothers were detained by French police the same night , the VRT news network reported.
The man had agreed to be extradited to Belgium, but his brother did not and an appeal against the extradition will be heard in a court in Paris on 4 February.
Meanwhile, Belgian daily De Standaard today reported that Khalid Bouloudo, "one of the most notorious Muslim extremists in the country," was one of the suspects arrested yesterday in a police operation against recruiters for fighters for Syria in the town of in Maaseik.
Bouloudo (40) was already convicted in 2006 in Brussels to five years in prison because he was a member of the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group, an Al-Qaeda-linked organization.
He is also accused of sheltering and providing money and papers to fighters returning from Afghanistan and Iraq to Belgium. (end)
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