Police in Russia's Far East are looking for a transgender man and his gay partner who they fear could flee Russia to join the Islamic State fundamentalist group, sensationalist tabloid LifeNews reported Tuesday.
Investigators fear the two suspects, identified as Alexei T. and Viktor E., could try to travel to Syria via the North Caucasus in southern Russia, home to some turbulent predominantly Muslim areas, the report said. The two men, both aged 22, hold radical views and regularly attended worship, LifeNews reported an unnamed source as saying.
Viktor, who has adopted a female name and wears women's clothes, is described in the LifeNews report as
the “ringleader” of the “battle trannies” and is said to maintain contacts with armed fundamentalist groups. Both suspects hail from the Kamchatka region, where they lived with Viktor's mother, the report said.
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