Harry Maguire shouted “f*** the Greek police” and “f*** the Greek civilisation” as he resisted arrest in Mykonos, one of the officers who detained him has claimed.
The 27-year-old footballer, who is captain of Manchester United, has been granted a full retrial after being convicted of assaulting and attempting to bribe police who tried to break up a bar brawl on the island. However, Ioannis Paradissis, the prosecutor who brought the case against Maguire, said a statement from an arresting officer presented in court last week casts doubt on the footballer’s claims that he thought he was being kidnapped.
The statement, which was published yesterday in the Greek newspaper Proto Thema, accuses him of hurling a torrent of verbal abuse at officers. He also