France extradites IS terror suspect to Russia

MOSCOW, Aug 14: A member of the Islamic State terrorist organization (IS, banned in Russia) was extradited to Russia from France on Thursday, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office told Sputnik.
“The accused was brought to Moscow in the small hours of August 14,” the office said.
The Prosecutor General’s Office said on Thursday that France would extradite Ruslan Botashev to Russia at its request to face criminal charges of undergoing training for terrorist activities and involvement in a designated terrorist organization.
Botashev is accused of having undergone training at the Muaskar-Sabri militant camp in Syria from early November to mid-December 2014. Investigators found that he joined an IS-affiliated group in January 2015.
From January to March 2015, Botashev guarded and defended IS engineering units that dug underground tunnels in the northwestern city of Aleppo and defended it from Syrian government forces.
A Russian court ordered Botashev to be detained in absentia. He was placed on an international wanted list in March 2016. In September 2018, he was reportedly detained in France, which agreed in July 2025 to extradite him to Russia. (UNI)

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