Deported from Turkey, a jihadist placed in police custody upon his arrival in France

Iraqi army soldiers pose after capturing an enemy ISIS flag, November 29, 2016. Hadi Mizban / AP Photo

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Barely arrived in France after being expelled by Ankara on Monday, October 5, the French jihadist Othman Garrido was taken into police custody.

Arrested in Turkey, the young man left for Syria in 2012, and has already been sentenced by default in France to 15 years in prison.

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Othman Garrido had been targeted since 2016 by an arrest warrant for having joined the ranks of the Islamic State group in Syria, having fought and calling on Muslims in France to commit acts of violence.

A new investigation would have been opened recently against him, into facts committed after his first conviction.

The Montpellier resident left with his older brother for Syria in 2012. He first joined al-Qaeda, then ISIS.

His father, mother and the last three children of the siblings quickly followed them.

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In 2014, Othman Garrido's face appeared on a video from the Islamic State organization, alongside two other French people.

He then calls to kill the disbelievers.

He is now the only member of his family to be back on French soil, after being expelled from Turkey under the "Cazeneuve protocol": a police cooperation agreement signed in 2014 by Paris and Ankara, which allows to intercept French jihadists on Turkish soil.

According to Paris, around 450 French people affiliated with the Islamic State group,

, are currently detained in northeastern Syria.

France only accepts to bring them back in droplets.

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