A Russian football hooligan wanted by French authorities over an attack on an English fan ahead of a Euro 2016 match in Marseille between Russia and England has been arrested at the airport in the southern German city of Munich, police said on Thursday.
The 31-year-old suspect could face up to 15 years in jail in France for attempted homicide and grievous bodily harm. The 51-year-old England fan who was attacked, Andrew Bache, was left paralyzed on the left-hand side of his body after being hit around the head with an iron bar.
French authorities had been seeking the suspect, who is accused of carrying out the attack with several other hooligans, for months.
The man was detained en route to the northern Spanish city of Bilbao. He was traveling there for Spartak Moscow’s away game in the Europa League on Thursday evening. The Russian embassy in Germany confirmed that a Moscow-born man born in 1986 had been arrested.
German prosecutor Joachim Ettenhofer said the suspect could be extradited to France in two weeks.
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