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I'm
no great fan of football but what has happened reflects what is
happening in Europe and geopolitically.
On
the face of it everyone has behaved badly- all the mobs of football
fans of whom the British have been the worst - and the Russians
face punishment.
The
Independent says "Russia fans are serial offenders when it comes
to misconduct at games" but apparetnly their own hooligans are
lilly white.
George
Galloway (correctly) thinks otherwise.
Incident
in Stade Velodrome follows worst days of football violence in decades
Russia
face a Uefa investigation after England supporters fled the Stade
Velodrome in Marseille, in fear of being physically attacked by
opposition supporters after the worst days of football violence in
decades. Women and children were thought to have been caught
underfoot in a stampede out of the stadium at the end of England’s
1-1 draw, when Russian fans broke from their area of seating and ran
at the English supporters. Russia fans are serial offenders when it
comes to misconduct at games and the national side have only just
avoided an automatic six-point deduction that would have seen them
effectively thrown out of European Championships.
Russia draws England in Euro 2016 opener
Russian
Fans Involved in Fight During Match With England to Be Punished
MOSCOW
(Sputnik) — On Saturday, Russian national football team played in a
draw with the team of England at the UEFA’s Euro 2016 tournaments
in France. The game ended with 1:1 score. England's quarterback Eric
Dier scored the first goal at the 73th minute of the match. Russia's
Vasili Berezutski tied the score in the added time.
Following
the match, about 30 Russian fans entered the area with England's
fans, having broken through a security cordon. The clashes began and
the security forces had to separate the groups of fans.
"It
is necessary to create hospitality zones for all fans… It is
necessary to understand, who arrives [at the championship]. And how
do you call the situation, when our fans are sitting and English fans
are throwing something to them. Unfortunately, we have fans, who burn
and blow up flares. It is not pleasant to pay fines for them. Now we
will identify and punish all of them," Mutko told R-Sport agency
after the Saturday's Russia-England football match.
UEFA
Probably to Fine Russia for Fans' Behavior During Match With England
The
Russian Football Union will be probably fined by the Union of
European Football Associations (UEFA) over disorders, Mutko added.
"As
far as I understand, the UEFA will fine us [Russia]… They [fans]
behaved in an improper manner," Mutko told R-Sport agency after
the Saturday's Russia-England football match.
George
Galloway has some very pertinent comments HERE
Conflicting
reports claimed that English, French and Russian fans were
responsible for clashes
The
English are not lilly-white
Euro
2016 England Fans Chant About Brexit At Violent Clashes In Marseille
Fans
also sang songs about the IRA and German bombers
11
June, 2016
England
fans chanted “fuck off Europe, we’re all voting out” between
violent clashes with police as the European
Championship got underway.
Chants
of “sit down if you hate the French” were also
reported, according
to the Guardian.
Bare-chested
fans also sang songs about the IRA and German bombers being shot down
as violence
first broke out at around 6.20pm French time outside the
Queen Victoria pub in the Old Port district of Marseille.
Shortly
after the final whistle of the France-Romania game, which France won
2-1, hundreds of England fans were surrounded by dozens of riot
police in one of a series of tense standoffs, according
to the Associated Press.
Fist
fights broke out between English, French and Russian-speaking men,
and one man was thrown into the harbour after he was beaten to the
ground by local fans,the
Press Association reported.
Disturbing
footage of the ugly scenes showed English fans pelting objects into
the street, showering the police with bottles and throwing chairs out
of cafes.
Flares
were also lit as officers deployed tear gas in an effort to disperse
the troublemakers throughout the day.
Police
later charged at fans as bottles were thrown.
Darko
Bandic/AP
French
riot police officers detain a person in downtown Marseille.
Thanassis
Stavrakis/AP
A
man takes evasive action during clashes between police and England
supporters.
Thanassis
Stavrakis/AP
Darko
Bandic/AP
Local
youths run after being chased by England supporters in downtown
Marseille.
Ariel
Schalit/AP
Police
stand guard as they patrol the streets.
Darko
Bandic/AP
French
riot police officers detain local youths.
Ariel
Schalit/AP
England
supporters react as they gather outside a bar.
Darko
Bandic/AP
England
supporters take evasive action after French police fired tear gas at
them.
Niall
Carson/PA Wire
Hundreds
of fans were photographed drinking outside pubs in Marseille on
Friday before the situation escalated between football supporters and
police.
Kevin
Miles, the chief executive of the Football Supporters’
Federation, said he England fans were drinking peaceably but a group
turned out and tried to provoke them.
He told
The Guardian: “It was all fine until, our understanding is, a
group of around 30 to 40 locals turned up, I think with the intention
of provoking the England fans to see if they could get a rise out of
them.
“In
those circumstances, it’s the police’s job to prevent a
confrontation and they used French methods to do so, which we’re
not particularly used to.”
Ambulances
were seen arriving after police carrying riot shields moved in to
separate the two groups and tear gas was used to clear the area.
Bars
and restaurants have been banned from showing the games on large TV
screens in a bid to stop fans gathering and improve security.
On
Thursday, England supporters chanted “Isis, where are you?” during
a pre-Euros clash with locals in Marseille, which also led to police
firing tear gas on them.
England
is set to play their first match against Russia on Saturday evening
at 8pm BST.
BREAKING NEWS: Ukrainian Pravy Sektor Nazis attack England fans in Marseille
BUSTED:
200 black-clad, knife-wielding Ukrainian thugs brought in aboard
Cypriot sardine trawlers to cause mayhem-
This
is happening almost as we speak. 200 men wearing black t-shirts,
black balaclavas and wielding knives descended on the port area of
Marseille where English and Russian football supporters had gathered
to drink in the local atmosphere, soak up the local sun and imbibe
the local beers.
from Veterans
Today:
French
riot police fire tear gas at fans in Marseille’s Old Port District
Everyone
was having a good time, the atmosphere was very relaxed, the English
and Russian fans mingling happily, taking photos of each other while
exchanging bursts of bawdy singing.
Then,
as if from out of nowhere, the horde of black-clad thugs arrived and
began attacking English fans. The claim made immediately on the BBC
is that these attackers are Russian hooligans. Of course,
this is yet more of the sickening demonisation of Russia and all
things Russian that we have seen unfold in recent months.
These
men were not Russians at all, although they spoke Russian. They are
hired thugs drawn from the same pool of neo-Nazi ultra-right thugs
from Lvov, members of Pravy Sektor mostly, who were responsible for
the Odessa Massacre.
Ukrainian
Ultras, specially imported for the purpose
Cypriot-registered
sardine trawler owned by a company with at least two former Mossad
men amongst it’s board members brought the rent-a-mob into the port
of Marseille last night, they are probably already on their way back
to the Black Sea.
We
have been expecting a false flag terrorist attack at Euro 2016, but
we were expecting it to take the more usual form of an ‘Islamic’
terrorist group shooting at people or blowing something up. This is a
new play but it is all too clear from who’s playbook it came.
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