Russian Federation summons France over detention of Euro 2016 fans

Riot police commander Olivier Dimpre told reporters outside the Flanders station that they are looking for hooligan groups before they get into the town center, saying riot police were ready for any disorder. Police then charged, spraying tear gas in front of them as they ran.

In footage posted online by ex-England footballer Stan Collymore, one man wearing a green hat is seen smashing wing mirrors off cars parked on the street.

That was followed by a large mass movement of fans chased by riot police.

Police had surrounded a bus carrying the fans at a hotel near Marseille and took them into custody over the clashes that erupted before and during Russia’s match against England on Saturday.

As tensions continued to rise, a stand off developed with the fans and a line of police, with a bottle being thrown.

Meanwhile, Jean-Maurice Ripert, the French ambassador to Russia, was this afternoon summoned by the Russian Foreign Ministry over the detention of their supporters this week.

If that was hard on Russian Federation, what happened next was harder as Napoli attacking midfielder Hamsik received Weiss’s short corner from the left and curled a powerful right-footed shot in, giving Slovakia a 2-0 lead just before the half-time.

England plays Wales in the nearby city of Lens on Thursday.

The unrest came as Russian fans set off a flare after a goal at their Euro 2016 game against Slovakia – two teams which are in the same Group B and England and Wales.

Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko said on Wednesday he could not rule out Russia fans being involved in more violence at Euro 2016 because they were “constantly being provoked”, the TASS news agency reported via Reuters.

France has dispatched to the city an additional 4,000 police officers in an effort to clamp down on such incidents, which French prosecutors have blamed mostly on Russian hooliganism. During a match against England in Marseilles on Saturday, Russian fans were found guilty of creating crowd disturbances, illegally lighting fireworks, and uttering racial slurs.

Elsewhere a group of England fans outside the train station in Lille were penned in by police when one of them lit a flare and began to wave it as they chanted.