Criminal case opened against 17-year-old Muscovite who went fighting in Syria on IS side - Russian Investigative Committee
MOSCOW. Dec 22 (Interfax) - Investigators confirmed that a criminal case was opened against a teenager, who went to Syria to fight on the side of the ISIL terrorist organization (banned in Russia), spokesperson of the Moscow Main Directorate of the Russian Investigative Committee Yulia Ivanova told Interfax on Tuesday.
"Currently investigators are conducting an exhaustive scope of investigative actions seeking to establish all the circumstances of the incident, charge the underage person in absentia and place him on the international wanted list," Ivanova said.
The criminal case was opened against the 17-year-old Muscovite under an article of the Russian Penal Code "for involvement in the activity of a terrorist organization."
According to the investigation findings, no later than December 2014 the teenager left Russia for Syria, where he has illegally participated in the Islamic State terrorist organization and has posted photographs on social networks in the company of IS militants with calls to terrorism, Ivanova said.
