A prison term for joining jihad

Flavien Moreau, the first French citizen to go on trial for joining up with jihadists in Syria, was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday by a Paris court. Moreau received the maximum sentence requested by the prosecution at the outset of his trial on October 17. The 27-year-old was not present in the courtroom as his sentence was read.Moreau travelled to Syria in 2012, before French authorities finally caught up with him in January 2013.   News 24              comments to taglines82@gmail.com