Bosnia-Herzegovina extradited to Paris on Monday January 29 a supremacist from Nice, Alexis Issaurat, wanted for a long time by French justice, AFP learned from the Bosnian authorities and French sources close to the case.
The Bosnian immigration service on Monday carried out
“a procedure for the forced return of a French citizen who had been the subject of a warrant issued by Interpol for criminal offenses linked to terrorism, weapons and high technology »
, according to a press release from the Bosnian Ministry of Security.
The press release does not specify the identity of the accused, but according to the two French sources close to the case, it is Alexis Issaurat, a 36-year-old French supremacist, originally from Nice.
In December 2023, the Paris prosecutor's office indicated to AFP that the extradition of this man had been granted by the Bosnian authorities, as part of five legal proceedings from the
"press and public liberties"
section of the prosecutor's office.
Among these procedures, threats targeting a senior French magistrate, Xavier Bonhomme, threats against a Jewish family or another person member of the supremacist movement... Practical and security reasons had repeatedly obstructed his effective transfer from Bosnia, the French public prosecutor had specified.
“Threat to public order”
According to the Bosnian press release, this Frenchman was banned from entering this Balkan state for five years, and
“represented a threat to public order and the national security of the country”
.
He was arrested in May in Banja Luka, capital of Republika Srpska, the Bosnian Serb entity, on the basis of the French arrest warrant.
The suspect took off on Monday in a private plane from Sarajevo airport, where he had been handed over to investigators from the Central Office for Combating Crimes Against Humanity and Hate Crimes (OCLCH), he said. -we learned from Bosnian and French sources.
According to one of the French sources close to the case, he landed in France in the middle of the afternoon, and was to be presented later to an investigating judge.
In 2022, he told AFP that he had fought in Ukraine within the Azov battalion, which attracted many activists from the French far right,
“for seven-eight months”
in 2014-2015.
“I am nationalist, identitarian, pro-White and European, so I act in solidarity with the Ukrainian nationalists against Bolshevism, for the defense of Europe and the West,”
this man, already sentenced to prison, explained to AFP. several times in France for violence, detention, trafficking and use of weapons.