By the end of 1892 he again returned to Paris where he learnt to know the French poet and animal-rights activist Marie Huot (1846–1930). Active in French anarchist circles he was in 1894 arrested and put on trial in the "Trial of the thirty". Within months of his release in 1895 he left France for Egypt, where he lived until he returned to Paris in 1896.[5] It was later on in Paris that Aguéli ended up converting to Islam and adopted the name 'Abd al-Hadi.