After several obstacles, his transfer was able to be carried out.
Bosnia-Herzegovina extradited to Paris on Monday a supremacist from Nice, Alexis Issaurat, who has been wanted for a long time by French justice, according to the Bosnian authorities and French sources close to the case.
The Bosnian immigration service carried out on Monday "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 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 who is a member of the supremacist movement...
Arrested with a French arrest warrant
Practical and security reasons had repeatedly obstructed his effective transfer from Bosnia, the French public prosecutor said.
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 declared having fought in Ukraine within the Azov battalion, which attracted numerous militants from the French far right, "for seven-eight months" in 2014-2015.
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“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,” explained this man, already convicted several times in France. for violence, detention, trafficking and use of weapons.