The Euro Cup is considered to be the largest football tournament of European countries. In 2016, the Euro Cup was held in France. For the first time, 24 teams took part in this tournament instead of 16. Like every time, the football fans of Europe reached France to encourage their respective countries. In this tournament, there was a clash of fans in the match played between England and Russia, which took the Paris police three days to deal with.
England and Russia were involved in different groups on the group stage. Where Russia was in Group B, England was in Group A. As the first match played between England and Russia in Marseille, at the stoppage time, violence broke out in the stadium as Russia drew a 1–1 goal to draw an equalizer. How this violence started is not clearly known till date, but at that time, the eyewitnesses said that the fans of Russia had brought flags in their hands and with them they started breaking the barrier which kept the fans of both the countries separate.
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The situation had got out of the hands of the police, a large number of fighting began between supporters of England and Russia, and all threw beer bottles at each other. The spectators broke the stadium chairs. Anti-riot police fired tear gas shells to control the situation. Russia was cracked and cracked by six points of the Russian team due to similar violent incidents on Russia in the Euro Cup 2012 in Poland four years ago. After this violence 6 to 7 people were arrested, while at least 34 others were injured in England.
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Police had to use water canon and tear gas: Two fans were arrested for entering the field. The violence was so dangerous some fans went into a coma. A picture has also gone viral on social media in which a person is trying to save his son while a fan of Russia is kicking him. After this match, the next day, before the Euro Cup match, the fans of both countries also clashed outside the stadium. The police had to use water canon and tear gas to stop this violence. It took three days for the whole matter to calm down.
Several rules changed after the match: This violence was condemned by the government of many countries and France. After this incident, any type of alcohol was banned in the stadium during the tournament. In this violence, the wife of Rebacah, wife of England striker Jamie Verdi, was also injured. However, the week after the incident happened, in the next week, between Iceland and Hungary, there was a fight between the fans again, but it was easily overcome.
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