Euro 2016: French police clash with England fans in third day of violence

theguardian.com ^ | 11 June 2016 | Daniel Boffey

[Berlin_Freeper]

French riot police have charged with batons and fired teargas on England fans in the old port of Marseille, in the third day of violence ahead of Saturday evening’s tie with Russia.

After a relatively peaceful morning, violence erupted around 3pm. Around 60 riot police marched on fans as they congregated outside bars and hotels on the harbour.

It was unclear what sparked the tactic, but some fans responded by hurling bottles at the advancing police.

One man, believed to be English, appeared to have been knocked unconscious. A witness said that the victim had been kicked repeatedly in the head. The identity, or nationality, of the assailants is not known.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Group B

Country	W	D	L	GD	Pts
WAL	1	0	0	1	3
ENG	0	0	0	0	0
RUS	0	0	0	0	0
SVK	0	0	1	-1	0

[Berlin_Freeper]

Bales :)

[miss marmelstein]

Where’s the scotsman to tell us the same thing happens at Yankee games? Oh, that’s right. He’s flown the freeper coop!

[Berlin_Freeper]

England football fans were involved in more ugly exchanges in Marseille on a second night of fighting and violence.

Disturbing footage showed a group of fans shouting "have it" as they pelted objects into the street from the Red Eagle.

[Berlin_Freeper]

An England fan was fighting for his life on Saturday after violence broke out on the streets of Marseille for the third day in a row.

[Berlin_Freeper]

official team sheet.

[Berlin_Freeper]

English and Russian briefly fans clashed with each other and police near the Stade Velodrome in Marseille. Police fired more tear gas and used a water cannon to disperse hundreds of fans within sight of the stadium about an hour before England were to face Russia at the European Championship. The English fans soon retreated toward the stadium.

[riri]

We can do the hard and unpopular work of deportation now or we can wait until it's a global wide bloody war with many millions dead.

The elites win either way. They'd love for many of us to be gone and they'd love every continent to be inhabited by easily controlled 80 IQ government dependents.

People would do well to remember homogeneous societies come out of heterogeneous societies and it isn't because the process to get that way was pleasant.

[Robwin]

The French police should try as hard to control the muzzie invaders.

Likewise the Brits. They should expend similar energy and aggressiveness in protecting their country from the Muslims.

[To Hell With Poverty]

Well that makes this Jones happy. ;)

[BlackVeil]

These are English soccer fans. They are fighting with local French people, and also with Russian fans.