Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said that the government would request Lt Col Pascal Tigri's extradition. The Beninese government official said the authorities knew that Lt Col Pascal Tigri was in Togo's capital, Lomé, in the same area where President Faure Gnassingbé lives. Togo is part of the West African regional bloc, Ecowas, which condemned the coup attempt. Houngbédji told the BBC that a small number of soldiers from the National Guard were behind the coup attempt. News of the attempted takeover in Benin was hailed by several pro-Russian social media accounts, according to BBC Monitoring.