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| The French police will provide a “greater police presence” inside and outside the stadium in Lens for England’s next match on Thursday, the home secretary has told MPs. | The French police will provide a “greater police presence” inside and outside the stadium in Lens for England’s next match on Thursday, the home secretary has told MPs. |
| Theresa May said that British police are also immediately sending more officers to France to reinforce the “spotters” used to identify known troublemakers and to provide investigative support to the French police. | Theresa May said that British police are also immediately sending more officers to France to reinforce the “spotters” used to identify known troublemakers and to provide investigative support to the French police. |
| The home secretary briefed the cabinet on Tuesday morning on the extra measures being taken before England’s next match against Wales to try to prevent a repeat of the weekend trouble in Marseilles. | The home secretary briefed the cabinet on Tuesday morning on the extra measures being taken before England’s next match against Wales to try to prevent a repeat of the weekend trouble in Marseilles. |
| British police chiefs also met their French counterparts to discuss details of the extra policing on Tuesday. May told MPs that she interrupted their meeting to be told that it was expected to decide “that there will be a greater police presence both inside and outside the stadium at Lens”. | British police chiefs also met their French counterparts to discuss details of the extra policing on Tuesday. May told MPs that she interrupted their meeting to be told that it was expected to decide “that there will be a greater police presence both inside and outside the stadium at Lens”. |
| May rejected criticism from the shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham, whose urgent question brought the home secretary to the Commons, that there were 600 banned British football hooligans whose passports had not been confiscated. He questioned why there were more than 2,000 banning orders in force but only 1,400 have had their passports taken away. May said the remaining 600 did not have passports. | May rejected criticism from the shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham, whose urgent question brought the home secretary to the Commons, that there were 600 banned British football hooligans whose passports had not been confiscated. He questioned why there were more than 2,000 banning orders in force but only 1,400 have had their passports taken away. May said the remaining 600 did not have passports. |
| The home secretary reiterated her view that coordinated groups of Russian supporters were responsible for most of the violence in Marseilles at the weekend. | The home secretary reiterated her view that coordinated groups of Russian supporters were responsible for most of the violence in Marseilles at the weekend. |
| “I note that Uefa within the last hour has announced that Russia is subject to a suspended disqualification from the tournament. This government’s priority now is to work with the French authorities to ensure that the events of the weekend are not repeated,” she told MPs. | |
| “This morning I updated cabinet colleagues on the full range of measures that we are taking ahead of the match between England and Wales in Lens on Thursday. It had already been agreed with the French that an additional contingent of UK police spotters would be deployed to help identify troublemakers.” | “This morning I updated cabinet colleagues on the full range of measures that we are taking ahead of the match between England and Wales in Lens on Thursday. It had already been agreed with the French that an additional contingent of UK police spotters would be deployed to help identify troublemakers.” |
| The Foreign Office is advising supporters without tickets to avoid travelling to Lens and nearby Lille. Russia are playing Slovakia in Lille on Wednesday afternoon, and the Foreign Office has said English and Welsh supporters should be on their guard. | The Foreign Office is advising supporters without tickets to avoid travelling to Lens and nearby Lille. Russia are playing Slovakia in Lille on Wednesday afternoon, and the Foreign Office has said English and Welsh supporters should be on their guard. |
| “Stadium security is an area of significant concern following the breakdown of segregation in the Velodrome stadium [in Marseilles]. We are all acutely conscious of the dangers when crowd management inside a stadium goes wrong, and discussions are in hand with the French police about reinforcing the stewarding operation in Lens on Thursday,” said May. | |
| She did not respond directly to MPs who raised the issue of links between Russian far-right “ultra” supporters and Russia’s official delegation to Euro 2016 but said the culture secretary, John Whittingdale, had been in touch with the Russian sports minister. |