Russian Federation handed suspended disqualification from Euro 2016 for crowd trouble

A senior Russian Football Union official and ultra-nationalist politician said on Monday that the country’s fans were right to fight England supporters at Euro 2016.

“The difficulty now is that everywhere England goes in France there will be expectations of violence and that will feed into a hostile environment around England fans which exacerbates the violence”, said Prof.

“It happened so quick, we did not have time to feel scared, it was pretty horrendous”.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls said people who had been sentenced in relation to fan violence would be deported.

Before the match, hundreds of English and Russian fans fought pitched battles in the Vieux-Port area of Marseille.

Another regional prefect, Fabienne Buccio said the 40,000-50,000 figure was based on reservations made on cross-Channel tunnel, train and ferry operators.

Later, in scenes that could draw sanctions from European soccer’s governing body, UEFA, Russian supporters charged their English counterparts inside Marseille’s Stade Velodrome moments after the final whistle in their teams’ 1-1 draw. We also know that a small minority of England fans have let themselves down by responding with violence and anti-social behaviour.

Chief Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin said Mr Bache had been beaten around the head with Russians armed with iron bars.

“The Russians obviously are playing there the day before our game, so that puts the English, the Welsh, the Slovakians and the Russian fans, to a large extent, all in Lille on Wednesday”.

The spokesman for Russia’s top investigative agency, Vladimir Markin, also took to Twitter to mock French efforts to contain the violence, claiming they could not handle “real men” because they were used to policing gay-pride marches.

Violence erupted at the weekend before and during England’s clash with Russian Federation on Saturday (June 11).

His comment follows an earlier outburst from a senior Russian football official and leading politician, who apparently praised his country’s hooligans for defending Russia’s honour.

Dmitrii Lukukh, a former member of a Russian “hooligan firm”, said that he knew some of his former colleagues were still in France but said if French police took proper measures there wouldn’t be any major trouble.

Russian state television ran a report depicting the clashes as a heroic combat between the outnumbered Russian fans and a drunken horde of Englishmen.

“What we want from our fans is to support us in the ideal way like they did in Bordeaux”.