Russian fan deported again
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A RUSSIAN fan group leader is being kicked out of France again — days after he was deported for alleged involvement in hooliganism and slipped back into the country illegally.
Alexander Shprygin’s actions exposed failings in Europe’s internal border security, and kept attention on Russian football fans despite Russia’s elimination from the Euro 2016 tournament on Monday night.
Shprygin, who is suspected of ties to the extreme right, was among several Russian fans detained last week and barred from French territory after violence around a match in Marseille.
Shprygin left France on Saturday, then returned on Monday for Russia’s match against Wales in Toulouse, apparently traveling overland from a neighboring country to avoid airport border controls. He tweeted that he re-entered France by “an unusual route under cover of night”, posing as a tourist.
He was detained again at the Toulouse stadium on Monday night, after tweeting about his return and posting images of himself online. He has been ordered to leave France and was to fly out of Toulouse on a charter flight for Moscow yesterday.
Shprygin sits on a Russian government commission overseeing Moscow’s preparations for the 2018 World Cup and has become a sort of spokesman for Russian fans at the Euro 2016.
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