UEFA has already told Russian football authorities that their team could be kicked out of Euro 2016 if there’s a repeat of the violence that surrounded its match last Saturday against England.
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He admitted he was at the scene of an attack on an English supporter who was left in a critical state after being beaten around the head with an iron bar. He denied being responsible however.
Welsh police at the Euros thanked supporters in both Lens, where the match was taking place, and nearby Lille, where many England and Wales supporters were staying, for their good conduct on Thursday.
Prosecutor Andre Ribe described the rampage through Marseille’s Vieux Port district. Russia to blacklist hooligans from World Cup Meanwhile in Moscow, Russian deputy prime minister Arkady Dvorkovich said Russia will blacklist Russian and foreign soccer hooligans ahead of the 2018 World Cup which it is hosting, the TASS news agency reported.
French authorities confirmed the arrests were made because of two “deplorable” incidents, one for throwing a smoke bomb at a police officer and the other for violence against a security guard.
Security forces watched English fans closely after 36 people were arrested Wednesday in Lille as riot police fired teargas at groups of fans.
Despite scattered incidents, the violence in the northern city of Lille did not reach the levels of last weekend in the southern city of Marseille, where English fans were involved in three days of occasionally vicious fighting. But he said that the prevalence of racist affiliations among Eastern European, including Russian, fans remained a serious problem.
“This is a bunch of good fans having a good time. I have bruises all over my body”, he told AFP.
It also all happened before England’s game against neighboring Wales on Thursday.
Russian Federation has been formally warned by UEFA that they could be thrown out of the competition if their fans cause any more trouble in stadiums.
Shprygin is also a former leader of a hardcore Dynamo Moscow fan group and has been accused of involvement with far-right and racist groups by Yudina’s Sova Center and Fare, an anti-discrimination group affiliated with UEFA.
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The Union of Russian Fans said on its website Thursday, “The delegation of the Union of Russian Fans, whose bus was stopped on 14 June on the way from Marseille to Lille, spent more than a day under arrest”. France beat Albania 2-0 in another of Wednesday’s games.
