Football Fan Violence: Euro 2016 Debate

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Department: Home Office

Football Fan Violence: Euro 2016

Jim Shannon Excerpts
Tuesday 14th June 2016

(7 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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He sounds a very bigoted fellow indeed.

Jim Shannon Portrait Jim Shannon (Strangford) (DUP)
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Russian fans were high on body-building medication, covered in tattoos and spoiling for a fight, encouraged—as we heard from the hon. Member for Ilford South (Mike Gapes)—by some Russian Members of Parliament. What will be done to protect British fans—indeed, all fans—from these Russian thugs?

Theresa May Portrait Mrs May
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Every effort is being made to work with the French authorities to ensure that if any extra action is necessary to protect fans from any of the home nations against the thugs who have been perpetrating this violence, that action is taken.