Tommy Robinson, a far-right, anti-immigrant agitator in Britain, was arrested on Monday night on suspicion of assaulting a man at St. Pancras train station in London.
Mr. Robinson, 42, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was taken into custody at Luton Airport, northeast of London, as he returned from Portugal.
The British police never confirm the identity of a person who has not been formally charged, but the British Transport Police said in a statement that a 42-year-old man from Bedfordshire had been arrested in connection with a July 28 assault at St. Pancras station. The man has been released on bail until Sept. 2, they said in response to a query from The New York Times on Tuesday that specifically named Tommy Robinson.
Video footage published by The Sun, a British newspaper, showed Mr. Robinson being met by police officers as he disembarked from a plane and then being escorted into a van.
Mr. Robinson had been wanted for questioning by the police since July 28, when a man was found unconscious inside St. Pancras station. A video shared widely on social media and by the BBC showed Mr. Robinson pacing nearby, although it did not show how the man ended up on the floor.
In the video, Mr. Robinson can be heard telling a bystander, “He come at me, bruv.”
A post published on Mr. Robinson’s account on X on Tuesday morning said “RELEASE THE FOOTAGE” and tagged the account of London’s Metropolitan Police Service.
The British Transport Police issued a statement at the time of the assault saying that a man had been taken to a hospital with serious injuries after an assault at St. Pancras. They added that the suspect, whom they did not name, had boarded a flight to Tenerife in the Canary Islands in the early hours of July 29, and they appealed for any witnesses with information to come forward.
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