Two days after his expulsion, the head of Russian hooligans back in France – L’Obs

The head of Russian hooligans Chpryguine Alexander was arrested Monday night in Toulouse while attending the match Russia-country of Wales, told AFP the carrier word of the Interior Ministry, Pierre-Henry Brandet

. Problem: the ultranationalist had been expelled from France on Saturday after the violence on the sidelines of the meeting of the Euro -2016 England-Russia in Marseille. 19 other supporters were, like him, escorted to the border on the same day.

Before the announcement of his arrest on Monday night, Alexander Chpryguine had tweeted videos stadium Toulouse:

Alexander Chpryguine is now in custody, and “the situation will be the subject of an administrative processing or a judicial process, “the spokesman of the ministry.

Passage through the Alps

How Alexander has Chpryguine he could end up in the stands just two days after his expulsion? “Nothing unusual,” he explained himself to AFP before his arrest:

“I have just sent off my Schengen visa was not canceled, all buffers are there. I can legally find me in the EU. I am in the game with a ticket. There ‘ there’s nothing wrong. “

He even stated that” among those who were expelled, four returned “in France.

Alexander Chpryguine have “made the journey through the Alps” to return to France. On his Twitter account, where he says he had to “do the tourist”, you can see pictures of his flight, and he arrived at the stadium in Toulouse, straw hat and sunglasses.

a pioneer of neo-Nazism in stadiums

As told to the “Obs” at its escort to the border Saturday, Alexander Chpryguine is not a lambda bear. born in 1977, hooligan former Dynamo Moscow and figure in the Russian far right, it is even recognized by the “Guardian” as a pioneer in the introduction of neo-Nazism in stadiums in the late 1990.

At a concert of the extreme metal band right Korrosiya Metalla he was photographed making a Nazi hello. Correction of the person concerned, a few years later: “It’s not a Nazi hello, but my arms would be stretched before me, whereas here it is above my head.” Refuting be a Nazi sympathizer, Chpryguine Alexander prefers to call “patriot”.

Qualified by “Télérama” of “the most unwanted man Euro 2016″, Alexander Chpryguine is also a close Putin and Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko. Connections that allowed his band of supporters to travel free to France.

A.R. (With AFP)