Smoke rises from the Syrian town of Kobani, on the Turkish-Syrian border in October 2014.

A French man accused of kidnapping his 18-month-old daughter in 2013 to wage jihad in Syria was taken into custody on Tuesday when he arrived in France after being deported from Turkey.

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Mériam Rhaiem and her two-year-old daughter Assia were reunited in Turkey at the beginning of September after she had fought for 10 months to get her child back.

Hamaz, 26, was arrested by the Turkish authorities in August and was deported and flown back to France on Tuesday.

He was stopped by police around 6:00pm when he arrived at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport, a judiciary source said.

The man, who had become radicalised on the internet, according to his ex-wife, was taken into custody as part of a judicial inquiry that opened in April for "criminal conspiracy in connection with terrorist undertaking".

He was also placed under investigation in the French south-eastern city of Bourg-en-Bresse in the Ain region where Rhaiem resides.

She had lodged a complaint for “child abduction” and “making false administrative documents”.

“All of those who directly or indirectly contributed to this abduction will have to be accountable,” said Rhaiem.

She admitted she was “relieved” by the placing in custody of her ex-husband.

“What he has done is unforgivable,” she said.



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