“This arrest part of the story is fiction.”
Your reference to an arrest in the story is fiction.
> Your reference to an arrest in the story is fiction. <
You’re right. I phrased that poorly. He was never arrested. Instead (if the story is to be believed) he is being prosecuted in absentia for some crime.
The more in think about it, the more I think the prosecution part of the story is a hoax, a publicity stunt. No matter what you think of Putin, why would he care about some float in some parade in Germany?