PARIS, February 19 Russian fan Pavel Kosov, sentenced in France to 10 years in prison, has been released from prison and will arrive in Moscow on Tuesday, his lawyer Alain Duflo said.
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"He was released this morning. The Russian consul was waiting for him in prison and escorted him to Marseille airport. Tomorrow he will be in Moscow,” Duflo said.
Kosov will fly to Turkey, from where he will board a flight to Moscow.
Russian fans Mikhail Ivkin and Kosov were detained in February 2018 at the request French authorities in Munich. Since March 2018, they have been in prisons in Marseille. Ivkin and Kosov were accused of violent acts using improvised means as weapons as part of an organized group of people, which led to the disability of English fan Andrew Bache.
In 2020, a court in the French Aix-en-Provence sentenced Ivkin and Kosov to three and ten years' imprisonment respectively for causing grievous bodily harm to an English fan during the 2016 European Football Championship. In December 2020, Ivkin was released and returned to Russia.