Some 150 suspected Russian football hooligans escaped arrest
for Euro 2016 fan violence, while another 10 supporters from Britain, France
and Austria will face trial on Monday, the Marseille prosecutor said.
On Saturday, 35 mostly British supporters were injured,
three seriously, in the worst violence at an international tournament since the
1998 World Cup in France.
According to Vanguard, an England football supporter
seriously injured in the violence remains in a “critical but stable” condition,
prosecutor Brice Robin told a news conference. “His attackers have not been
identified,”
Robin said. Six Britons, one Austrian and three French
spectators will be tried Monday for the violence in Marseille, he said.
He described the Russians who evaded arrest as “extremely
well-trained”. Robin said the prosecution would request jail sentences for the
defendants as well as a ban on entering French territory.
More than 1,200 riot police were deployed to quell the unrest
in Marseille, which began when hundreds of supporters - many of them drunk -
began pelting each other with bottles and chairs in the city’s Vieux Port area.
The clashes in the stadium on Saturday followed England's
1-1 Euro 2016 draw with Russia, after Russia fans appeared to rush at England
supporters.
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