Germany

Newspaper pic during Euro 2008 lands conman in the slammer

Melbourne, June 30 : German police arrested a Turkish criminal after finding him in a newspaper snap cheering on his side during a Euro 2008 football match, which he was watching in a bar in Munich.

The 36-year-old man was wanted for fraud.

The officers immediately recognised him when they saw the picture, and contacted the newspaper to find out where the snap was clicked.

The barmen told the police that that man had been watching games there since the tournament began, and that people knew him as a local supermarket worker.

The man was nabbed while at work.

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