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Harry Maguire yelled ‘F *** Greek police, f *** Greek civilization’ as police tried to arrest him in Mykonos, one of the arresting officers claimed.
The £ 85 million Manchester United central media was convicted last week of assaulting police and attempted bribery after officers arrived to disrupt a fight outside a bar on the island of Mykonos.
Maguire appealed his convictions and will face a full new trial after his legal team filed an appeal against the decisions last week.
In a statement printed in the Greek publication Protothema, one of the officers who detained him on the night of the disorder recalled that Maguire, 27, launched a torrent of abuse when he was arrested.
The statement alleges that Mr. Maguire yelled: ‘Fuck you all, fuck you, fuck the Greek police, fuck the policemen, screw Greece, screw Greek civilization, I don’t give a shit ‘.
The statement added that Maguire, “attacked the sergeant … pushed him and kicked him in the right leg causing swelling of his left and right tibia.”
One of the officers who arrested him on the night of a fight, which led to Harry Maguire (pictured) being convicted of assaulting an officer and attempted bribery, said he launched a torrent of abuse against the officers.
In this Saturday, Aug.22, 2020 file photo, English soccer player Harry Maguire leaves a court building on the Aegean island of Syros, Greece.
Harry Maguire, 27, claims the fight broke out after his sister Daisy, 20, (pictured) was drugged
The third accused [Joe] He also attacked the aforementioned police officer and hit him in the face with his fists, causing a slight swelling of his right upper lip, ” the statement said.
The officer claims that the violence continued once the group was taken to the police station.
Mr. Maguire, the officer said, “pushed hard and knocked the sergeant to the ground,” leaving the officer with “abrasions on his right forearm, sciatica and right back pain.”
Once it was inside the police station that Mr. Maguire bribed the officers, the statement said. He is alleged to have said that he could pay them because he was the captain of Manchester United.
Mr Maguire insists that he was defending his 20-year-old sister Daisy from two Albanian men who injected him with a drug, claiming that he thought he was being kidnapped by a fake police and tried to flee “ in fear for his life ” when the agents arrived. .
The public prosecutor who took the case against Maguire said yesterday that he “doubts” that the footballer feared for his life during his arrest, since the Greek police assure that they treated him “like another drunk Briton.”
Prosecutor Ioannis Paradissis, who appeared on Good Morning Britain yesterday, said police did identify himself to Maguire, who he says is now using his fortune to evade responsibility for his actions.
Mr Paradissis told the show ‘I doubt he feared for his life’, adding: ‘The policemen heard some kind of commotion, an argument and they just went there to break up the argument, they just went there for help.’
The prosecutor also said that witnesses claimed that the officers immediately revealed that they were from the police, something that Maguire says did not happen.
The Manchester United captain has claimed that the plainclothes officers refused to identify themselves during his arrest.
Maguire told the BBC in an explosive interview last week that he thought he was being abducted by a fake police officer and tried to escape “in fear for his life” when officers arrived.
But one of the officials has scoffed at the story told by the England player making £ 190,000 a week and told The Sun: ‘We don’t treat him any differently than other drunken British guys.
‘This was just a drunk guy fighting. We take care of that a lot. But it has become something more with everything he says.
‘Why would eight policemen surround him and not identify themselves? We would lose our jobs. ‘
England’s defenseman announced on Wednesday that he will appeal the decision against him in a court on the island of Syros and now faces a new trial.
Maguire, who asked the BBC to keep his current location secret, vowed to fight to clear his name, saying: “I am really sure the truth will be told.”
Maguire, moved, said: ‘My initial thought was that they are kidnapping us. We knelt down, raised our hands and then they started hitting us on the legs saying my career is over, no more football, you will not play again.
‘And at this point I thought there was no possibility that they were policemen, I don’t know who they are, so I tried to run away, I was afraid for my life.’
The England star insisted he had done nothing wrong and owed “no one” an apology.
Mr Maguire said: ‘I don’t feel like I owe an apology to anyone, an apology is for when you’ve done something wrong.
‘I’m sorry to be in this situation. Obviously, the situation has complicated it, I play for one of the biggest clubs in the world, so I’m sorry I put the fans and the club through this. ”
The world’s most expensive defender also denied claims that he bribed police officers and called the statement read in court “ridiculous.”
The BBC’s Dan Roan asked Maguire if he agreed that he was looking for trouble by going to a busy bar on the popular resort island.
He said, ‘No, it could have happened anywhere. I love Greece. I think footballers get a bit of a beating for trying to stay away from it all, but ‘it’s not how I want to live my life.
The soccer star, who has been removed from Gareth Southgate’s England team, described what it was like to spend two nights in custody.
He said, ‘It was horrible, it’s nothing I want to do again, I don’t wish it on anyone. It is the first time that I am in a prison.
