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Asked by the court if he agrees to the extradition, the suspect answered: “No… I stand by my lawyer.”
The court scheduled a hearing on the issue for June 12, to allow the defense team to prepare its case.
The defense can appeal to the French supreme court (the Cour de Cassation), and, as a last resort, to the European Court of Human Rights.
But according to judicial sources, the only effect this could have is to delay the process for a month or two.
The suspect was transferred from his cell at a prison just outside Paris to Bois-D’Arcy Prison in the nearby Yvelines region.
Also on Thursday, Austrian authorities said they had arrested a man suspected of recruiting Muslims to fight with the rebels in Syria, a provincial state prosecutor said.
A spokesman for the prosecutor’s office in Graz, Austria’s second-largest city, said the suspect was detained two days ago following raids on buildings belonging to the city’s Muslim community.
“He is suspected of radicalizing people and recruiting them to fight in Syria,” he said, adding that four of them had been killed in Syria. He declined to give further details about the suspect.
The Austrian Profil news magazine said the suspect was a 41-year-old imam of Chechen origin, whose recruits had joined the al-Qaida- affiliated al-Nusra Front in Syria.