French police have arrested 43 Russian fans suspected of being involved after stopping a bus in the Alpes-Maritimes region in the south of the country on Tuesday, according to local media reports.
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Unconfirmed footage showed another fan being led away by police opposite the Lille Flandres station.
When the game ended in a 1-1 draw, Russian supporters attacked English fans in the stadium in fighting that continued in the city afterward.
Shprygin claimed they had been told they face deportation and had asked for the Russian consul to intervene on the stand-off in Cannes. It quoted a staff member as saying: “The English went for a table to defend themselves”.
PARIS Russia will be disqualified from the European Championship if there is more violence by the teams fans inside stadiums in France.
“This disqualification is suspended until the end of the tournament”, UEFA said in a release on Tuesday. Among the incidents at Euro 2012, stadium security staff in Wroclaw, Poland, were assaulted by Russian fans at the teams opening 4-1 victory over the Czech Republic.
Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said, “The punishment is excessive”, and described the 150,000 euro ($169,000) fine imposed by the UEFA as “huge”.
Most of the English fans were injured after being set upon by “heavily trained” Russian hooligan gangs intent on violence.
A contingent of Russia’s supporters charged towards the English fans at the final whistle, resulting in panic as they fled and jumped over barriers to escape.
Manager Slutsky, who is also in charge of CSKA Moscow, concurred, as well as accusing England fans of inciting attacks on them by Russian Federation hooligans after the final whistle of Saturday’s 1-1 draw at the Stade Velodrome.
British Home Secretary Theresa May said the French government had to review its crowd policy despite the “inexcusable” behaviour of some England fans. “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”.
The video documents a number of ugly clashes with England fans, with a worrying lack of French police apparently present.
England supporters gather at the old port of Marseille before the game.
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It comes after the first fan to appear in a United Kingdom court over the trouble in France was handed a five-year football ban, after a police “spotter” in the United Kingdom saw video of the man “throwing a chair”.
