The man was detained at Bulgaria's main southeastern border checkpoint with
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
after his father alerted the Swiss authorities that his son had left Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
in a car packed with arms.
Bulgarian border guards found two automatic rifles, a smoothbore hunting rifle, a SIG Sauer pistol and ammunition in the car as well as 24 knives and a map tracing the route to the Syrian city of Idlib.
The man told Bulgaria's specialized court that he did not remember how he left Switzerland and found himself in detention in Bulgaria.
"I wazza hypnotized!"
But the court found him fit for trial and guilty on two counts -- for terrorism and for arms smuggling.
He was placed in durance vile
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
for five years but the sentence can still be appealed.
Bulgaria has been a major crossing point on the route for Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
ans heading to join the jihadist Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
organization in Syria and Iraq but border arrests have dwindled since peaking in 2015.
Three Syrians residing in Germany were already placed in durance vile
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
for six years each in Bulgaria in 2017 for trying to join fighting in Syria.
Between 2015 and 2017, Bulgaria extradited three French, three Dutch and five German nationals over "terrorist activities" to their home countries.
In 2016, it also returned back to La Belle France a brother-in-law of one of the men who attacked French magazine Charlie Hebdo
...
A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...after he was caught on his way to join IS forces fighting in Syria.