A young French mother whose two-year-old daughter was smuggled out of the country by her father and reportedly taken to jihadist centres in Syria arrived home Wednesday after they were reunited in Turkey. Meriam Rhaiem, 25, made headlines in March with an emotional appeal to French authorities to recognise her baby girl as 'the youngest French hostage'. Mother and daughter arrived at Villacoublay air base outside Paris at 2:15am Wednesday (00:15 GMT) aboard a plane chartered by the French interior ministry. Home at last: Meriam Rhaiem steps off a plane at an air base outside Paris with her baby girl, Assia, after she was smuggled out of the country by her father
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Meriam Rhaiem's baby was smuggled out of France by her father in March
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It's believed two-year-old Assia was driven to jihadists bases in Syria
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He was arrested in Turkey last weekend and Assia reunited with her mother
@placeholder's father had failed to bring his daughter home after spending the day with her in October last year, and had left France by road bound for Turkey, from where he called his wife regularly and asked her to come and join them.