The first French jihadist sentenced to his return from Syria, Flavien Moreau, was released on Monday (January 13th) from Condé-sur-Sarthe prison in Orne, where he was incarcerated, the prison administration said, confirming a information from West France. He is now being followed up as part of judicial oversight by a sentencing judge and a probation service, a judicial source said.
His exit is therefore accompanied by various obligations and prohibitions: he must in particular reside in a specific place, receive care and have a job. He is also prohibited from holding a weapon or leaving the territory without authorization. These measures must last 11 months and 18 days because they are based on the reduced sentences he was able to obtain when he was in detention.
Arrested in January 2013
As Franceinfo recalls, Flavien Moreau was released from June 2019, but he was sentenced to six months in prison on appeal, in May 2019, for having threatened with death the guards of the prison of Vendin-Le-Vieil, where he had been transferred in September 2018.
The 33-year-old man was sentenced in November 2014 to seven years in prison, the maximum sentence required during his trial. After falling into delinquency (13 convictions), this young man of South Korean origin adopted very young by a French family, had converted to Islam in contact with friends and neighbors, before becoming radicalized then to go to Syria.
He had joined a radical Islamist group but did not stay there long. Returning to France, he was spotted by the anti-terrorist services and arrested in January 2013 when he planned to return to Syria.
