Warfare

The court in Cologne issued an arrest warrant for five Russian football fans detained on Thursday for an attack on Spanish tourists. This was reported by the "German wave" with reference to the press secretary of the Cologne police Wolfgang Baldes. Another Russian citizen, detained with them, was released, since suspicions were not confirmed by him.

The Russians were placed in an investigative prison. They are charged with grouping dangerous bodily harm to tourists from Spain. Those laid the agitation materials of the anti -fascist movement Antifa on the pillars. One of the Spaniards, to whom the hooligans broke their nose, was discharged from the hospital on Friday.

According to Baldes, after the riots arranged here on New Year's Eve by immigrants from the Arab countries, the territory between the Cologne Cathedral and the Main Iron Dorotary Station of the city is constantly guarded by police officers, including dressed in civilian clothes. At first, one of them tried to provoke hooligans. The police called by him detained fans.

The police are ready to resolutely stop the actions of football hooligans, regardless of the country of their origin, Baldes emphasized. According to him, law enforcement agencies understand that other football fans can follow the group of Russian hooligans through Cologans. To control their movement, the city’s police coordinate their work with colleagues serving at the Cologne-Bonn Airport, as well as other law enforcement agencies.

On Thursday evening, the Russians attacked three Spaniards near the Cologne Cathedral. According to the police representative, the attackers behaved "extremely aggressively" and acted "cruelly". The police managed to detain five attackers directly at the scene. The sixth fan managed to hide, but on the night of Friday he was detained at the airport at the flight to the flight to Ibiza.

According to the police, the Russians flew from Moscow to Marseille on June 10 and went to two matches of the Russian team with England and Slovakia. On Thursday, they arrived by train from Brussels to Cologne. Now German law enforcement officers, together with the French colleagues, intend to find out whether the detainees were involved in the riots in Marseille.

On Friday, the Embassy press attache in Berlin, Sergei Belyaev, said that the Russians detained in Cologne were charged under the three articles of the Criminal Code of Germany. "The Germans nominated them in three articles:" violation of public order "," infliction of bodily harm "and" police resistance ". The articles are all serious, the maximum deadlines for them - from three to 10 years," the diplomat said.

On Thursday, the court in France sentenced three Russian football fans to terms from one to two years in prison on charges of participating in riots in Marseille before the match between the national teams of Russia and England. Alexey Nevrunov, Sergey Gorbachev and Nikolai Morozov were sentenced to two years, 18 months and 12 months of prison, respectively.

On Tuesday, all three were detained along with 40 other Russian fans on the bus, who went to Lille for the Russia-Slovakia match. In relation to 20 of them, the French authorities decided to expel from the country . According to the head of the All -Russian association of fans of Alexander Schopygin, the cause of the French authorities called the "potential threat" represented by Russian fans. On Saturday, the expelled should be delivered to Moscow.

On Wednesday, it was also decided to expel four Russian fans from France , detained in Lille before the match of Russia -Slovakia.