PARIS (AP) — French authorities have filed preliminary charges for terrorism against a 27-year-old man who allegedly traveled to fight in the border zones of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Police investigators say they believe the Frenchman of Algerian origin spent 10 months in the volatile region, which is a base for the Taliban and al-Qaida linked fighters, before returning home earlier this year.
The man was handed preliminary charges Saturday on suspicion of "criminal association with a view to preparing a terrorist act."
Counterterrorism agents arrested the man and his brother near Paris Tuesday. The brother was released without charge.
French authorities are on high alert over a possible terror attack and fear some French citizens who have traveled to central Asia could return home with insurgency training and a desire to carry out attacks.
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