As a teenager, Jejoen Bontinck danced in music videos and was a regular kid hanging out with friends in Antwerp, Belgium. But within a year, he went from a hip-hop-loving teenager to a young Muslim convert, preaching on the streets of Antwerp. His father, Dimitri Bontinck, claims that in 2010, when Jejoen was 15, he became infatuated with a Moroccan girl, which eventually led to him converting to Islam. His parents started noticing a radical change in their son about eight to nine months after the conversion. "He started to become very religious. He stopped wearing his normal clothes. So we really see the progress of radicalization -- this is the right word -- we really see the signs," Dimitri explained.
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Jejeon Bontinck left Belgium to join militant group Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria last year
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Bontinck's dad Dimitri decided to try to track his son down in Syria
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Al-Nusra militants nearly killed Dimitri, but ultimately led him to his son
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Jejeon, now 19, is back in Belgium and facing terrorism charges
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Dimitri searched for clues online to where his son really was, and he was shocked by what he found -- videos and pictures of his son's hometown friends in @placeholder.
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He took out an ad in a local newspaper asking for volunteers to take him to @placeholder.
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Police detained Jejoen, now 19, when they landed in @placeholder, and charged him with participating in a terrorist organization.
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Dimitri insists his son is innocent and says that the @placeholder authorities haven't done enough to keep their own citizens safe from extremist groups.