Police on the continent don’t fuck around. They’ve also been using teargas grenades against fans that were throwing bottles at them.
Apparently some locals have been causing trouble, but idk how reliable that info is, so feel free to take it with a pinch of salt.
Usual police and UEFA treating fans like cattle. Similar story at the UEFA cup final, with police not letting fans take water into a roasting hot stadium, and “confiscating” phone chargers, headphones etc.
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While shouting abuse and making aggressive gestures.
But let’s not focus on that.
A few bellends ruined it for a lot of people and that’s a shame, but to focus on the reaction and aftermath and ignore the bellends who caused it totally is idiotic.
Probably need to start doing this in the UK.
Policemen in France were criticized when they let english “sport fans” vandalized a whole block in Marseilles during Euro 2016.
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So they are not taking any chances in Paris.
Last Celtic win the ‘fans’ completely took over the city centre in Glasgow, trashed the place, damaged historical buildings, set off flares, broke local bylaws, started fights and prevented anyone using the city centre for normal purposes for the rest of the day.
That is disorderly conduct that would get any normal person on a normal day arrested. All this whining about how harsh European police are I just always take as a complaint that football fans acting in a way that disrupts normal life for everyone else isn’t treated as acceptable there. Take over a street without permission, get teargassed. Meh.
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Police on the continent don’t fuck around. They’ve also been using teargas grenades against fans that were throwing bottles at them.
Apparently some locals have been causing trouble, but idk how reliable that info is, so feel free to take it with a pinch of salt.
Usual police and UEFA treating fans like cattle. Similar story at the UEFA cup final, with police not letting fans take water into a roasting hot stadium, and “confiscating” phone chargers, headphones etc.
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While shouting abuse and making aggressive gestures.
But let’s not focus on that.
A few bellends ruined it for a lot of people and that’s a shame, but to focus on the reaction and aftermath and ignore the bellends who caused it totally is idiotic.
Probably need to start doing this in the UK.
Policemen in France were criticized when they let english “sport fans” vandalized a whole block in Marseilles during Euro 2016.
​
So they are not taking any chances in Paris.
Last Celtic win the ‘fans’ completely took over the city centre in Glasgow, trashed the place, damaged historical buildings, set off flares, broke local bylaws, started fights and prevented anyone using the city centre for normal purposes for the rest of the day.
That is disorderly conduct that would get any normal person on a normal day arrested. All this whining about how harsh European police are I just always take as a complaint that football fans acting in a way that disrupts normal life for everyone else isn’t treated as acceptable there. Take over a street without permission, get teargassed. Meh.