Russian and Slovakian fans are also in Lille, after their match at the city’s Stade Pierre-Mauroy on Wednesday.
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At least 36 people were arrested while a total of 16 people were also hospitalized throughout the day.
Two England fans were also arrested in Lens.
When French police rounded up 43 Russian supporters in a bus near Marseille three days later, Alexei Yerunov, 29, was identified from security camera footage as being at the scene of that attack.
“Fans from a number of countries took part in unacceptable violence in Marseille”, the ambassador said during the meeting.
A lot of English and Welsh fans have travelled over and its been really good humoured.
But there was no sign of tension between England and Wales fans when they converged on bars in Lille on Wednesday night ahead of Thursday’s game between the British neighbors in the tiny town of Lens.
The decision effectively means England are not under any immediate threat of disqualification over their fans’ behaviour as any decision to expel England for crowd disturbances outside the stadium would need to be taken by the executive committee.
Police said 36 people were arrested on various charges following clashes between the rival fans after Slovakia beat Russian Federation in Lille.
The French authorities chose to deport 20 fans claiming among them are “tough and well-trained hooligans”, though the detectives failed to identify anybody in 200-hour video records of the disorders.
A small group of young England fans in their late teens said that Russian fans had started the trouble by charging at a larger knot of around 200 England fans drinking outside the Le Prize pub, 100 yards from the main square. The violence, which one Russian fan videotaped and uploaded to YouTube, left several hospitalized, and one English fan suffered brain death.
“There is a massive mob of Russian fans standing outside the station just waiting to cause trouble”. Wales is top with three points followed by England and Russian Federation with a point apiece and Slovakia, which is yet to get off the mark.
The fine is enormous as the Russian Football Union is a non-commercial organization.
Another English fan, who gave his name as Rob, said: “I’m 53, fat and slow and I’d had too much to drink, which is why they targeted me”.
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Northern Ireland were celebrating a 2-0 win over Ukraine when players and staff were informed that a second supporter following the team in France had died.
