ALGIERS, July 16 (Xinhua) -- French authorities on Monday expelled a French terrorist suspect to Algeria for trial, Algeria's official APS news agency reported.
Djamel Beghal, 52 years old of Algerian origin, has been sentenced to five years in prison for inciting terrorist acts, including the deadly attacks targeting the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish shop in Paris.
He was already sentenced in Algeria on Feb. 16, 2003 in absentia to 20 years in prison for belonging to a terrorist group.
According to the source, an INTERPOL arrest warrant for Beghal was issued on August 2001.
The Algerian authorities attempted through this international procedure to deport the accused suspect from France in order to try him, but the French authorities had rejected the request on the ground that Beghal holds French citizenship.
But now that he was stripped of his French citizenship in 2006, the suspect has been handed over to Algeria on Monday.
