Euro 2016: Russian Federation handed suspended disqualification following stadium violence

UEFA opened up disciplinary proceedings against Russia for the violence caused inside the stadium, and now French prosecutors have said that 150 Russian fans were at fault for the scenes at the Stade Velodrome.

European football’s governing body on Tuesday released the results of an investigation into clashes between English and Russian fans inside the Stade Velodrome in Marseille on Saturday evening, when English fans clambered over barriers to escape Russian fans’ kicks and punches.

The Kremlin released a statement asking Russian fans at the Euro 2016 not to react to ‘provocations.’ AFP reported the Russian sports minister as saying Russia will abide by UEFA rulings on the disturbances.

Fans clash after the EURO 2016 Group B match between England in Marseille, France.

“I personally think that if Mutko was with the fans on the stands and not an official, he would also go and fight the English fans since they were the ones who started it”, Lebedev said.

England will be kicked out of Euro 2016 if there is more violence ahead of any of the remainder of their games in France.

The police stopped a bus carrying Russians and detained them.

Lens is due to impose an alcohol ban for the 24 hours before England’s game against Wales, while British police have agreed to join their French colleagues in an attempt to keep the peace.

UEFA had already warned Russian Federation and England that it could disqualify them if there was more trouble.

Thirty-five people were injured in clashes around the game including one person from England who remained in critical but stable condition.

On Monday a Marseille court began hearing fast-track trials of 10 people held in police custody, six Britons, three French nationals and an Austrian. “We count on Russian citizens and fans to obey the laws of the country they are in”, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, adding that “we can only call on our fans not to react to any sort of provocation”.

NPCC lead for football policing, Assistant Chief Constable Mark Roberts appealed for witnesses to send police any footage and said: “A number of images of those involved in disorder have been collated and work continues to identify those involved”.