The prosecutor’s office has charged a Bulgarian citizen with involvement in terrorist activities abroad.

He has been detained for 72 hours, the prosecutor’s office is demanding that he be held in custody permanently. Evidence shows that since 2015 the young man has travelled repeatedly to Syria and has been directly involved in armed operations by different jihadi terrorist groups. It has been established that the father of the person in question is, at this moment, leader of one of these groups. It is precisely his father who brought about his radicalization and recruited him for terrorist activities in Syria. At this time there is no evidence of the accused Bulgarian citizen having taken part in any preparations for terrorist attacks in Bulgaria.