Euro 2016: France deports 29 Russia fans who were on bus to Lille with far-right fans’ association chief | International | Sport | The Independent

A group of 29 Russian football fans who were accompanied by a government-accredited far-right activist are being deported from France following violence at the Euro 2016 football tournament.

Alexander Shprygin, who has been photographed giving a Nazi salute as well as with the Russian president Vladimir Putin, tweeted from a bus that was stopped en route to Lille for Russia’s match on Wednesday against Slovakia.

Mr Shprygin is the head of the Russian Union of Supporters and an assistant to Igor Lebedev, an official in the Russian Football Union who made headlines on Monday after telling violent hooligans involved in the violence in Marseille: “Well done lads, keep it up!”

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