COLUMBIA, S.C. — A student at South Carolina’s military college who faces criminal charges in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol is requesting permission to travel to Estonia for a three-week summer school trip that would include visits to U.S. and NATO government installations.
A lawyer for Elias Irizarry, 20, a sophomore at The Citadel who is from York County, has filed a motion in federal court asking U.S. Judge Tanya Chutkan to allow Irizarry to travel to Estonia’s capital, Tallinn, for a three-week program focusing on cybersecurity in the Baltic region and the Baltic states’ relationship to Russia.
Irizarry applied for and was accepted into the program this spring, and The Citadel is giving Irizarry a $2,500 scholarship to go on the program, according to court documents. The award is coming through the school’s Humanities and Social Sciences department. Irizarry’s proposed summer program includes visits to the U.S. Embassy and a NATO Cybersecurity Center, according to court documents.
