Two Russians were sent back to the Assize Court of Bouches-du-Rhône for the violent assault of an Englishman, suffering from permanent disabilities, on the sidelines of Euro-2016, during scuffles in the center- city of Marseille.
Detained in France since March 2018, these two Muscovites, Pavel Kosov, a 33-year-old driver, and Mikhail Ivkine, a 34-year-old sports teacher, will be tried for violence in a meeting and with a weapon, followed by a permanent infirmity. They face 15 years in prison.
Punched and kicked
A few steps from the Old Port, on June 11, 2016, before an England-Russia match, Andrew Bache, a 51-year-old English delivery driver, had been the target of throwing chairs and bottles. Pursued, he was then punched and kicked by a group of five Russian supporters.
He had been rescued by CRS but his injuries, particularly to the skull, provoked, according to an expert, "serious physical and psychological after-effects, permanent and permanent". Her son had to leave Australia to care for him. Established in October 2016, a joint Franco-British investigation team had tracked down Russian supporters who had traveled to France on social media.
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