Three Russian Football Fans Jailed in France

The head of a Russian soccer supporters’ association, Alexander Shprygin, is among 20 Russian fans who will be expelled from France in the coming days after violence flared at their Euro 2016 match against England, a police source said on Thursday.

Mumbai: Lambasting rowdy elements among his country’s fans who have converged on France to support their national team’s campaign in the ongoing Euro 2016, former Liverpool and England football star Robbie Fowler on Friday claimed that they were only handful of people.

All sentenced Russians are between 28 and 33 years in age.

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

Yerunov, 29, who is supporters’ liaison officer at Lokomotiv Moscow according to the club’s website, received the longest prison sentence of 24 months.

There has been a high level of security in Lens and Lille where trouble broke out on Wednesday, with some English and Russian supporters being detained after scuffles.

Anxious to avoid the 35 injuries caused by scuffles in Marseille on Saturday, each time serious trouble loomed a legion of riot squad, gathered behind shields, charged firing tear gas and flash bombs.

Almost 10,000 fans watched the action from Lens unfold at the fan zone in nearby Lille, with scenes of jubilation from Three Lions supporters when Daniel Sturridge bagged a last-minute victor.

He called on Russian fans to behave appropriately when they face Wales on Monday.

Dave Deakin, from Allesley, had travelled as a supporter to Marseille to watch Roy Hodgson’s men’s opening match in the European Championship against Russian Federation on Saturday.

AN EVESHAM football fan has revealed he felt “extremely unsafe” in the Stade Velodrome during England’s opening game in Euro 2016.

“What has happened to us is a complete outrage”, Shprygin said by phone from the airport, adding the 20 were not involved in any disorder. Thirty-six arrested were made and 16 people injured.

And now he appears to have taken his stance a step further by poking fun at England fans that were attacked by the Russians last weekend.

Football fans have not exactly wrapped themselves in glory at the European Championships this summer, and a gang of English “supporters” has let the sporting fraternity down again, as images have emerged of them stomping and urinating on Russian flags.

Setting off a flare in the final 10 minutes of the game was the only notable example of misbehavior by Russian fans.

While the Marseille clash which reached a 3-day fever high, French authorities had to resort to releasing tear gas to disperse the warring fans and gangs. They were confronted by a group of Albania fans, leading police to intervene inside the fan zone.