A high-profile French jihadist was charged with terrorist offences and remanded in custody on Sunday, a day after being transferred to France from Turkey, where he had turned himself in to authorities.
Kevin Guiavarch, a 24-year-old who converted to Islam 10 years ago, was one of the UN's most wanted jihadists and had been placed on a blacklist in 2014.
Suspected as being one of the major Islamic State group recruiters attracting young French people to join the jihadist cause in Syria and Iraq, Guiavarch rubbed shoulders with some of the perpetrators of the November 2015 Paris attacks while living in Raqa, IS's de facto capital.
The former church choirboy, who was raised by a single mother in Brittany, now claims to be "reformed" — though he has also told French author David Thomson, who wrote a book about returning jihadists, that he left IS because he was afraid of dying.
He spent four years in Syria amongst jihadists, first with former Al-Qaeda affiliate the Fateh al-Sham Front, and then IS.
He quit Syria in June 2016 with his four French wives and six children, and went to Turkey where they were all arrested.