According to Dailymail
Russian 'ultras' have attacked English and Welsh fans in Lille this afternoon after 'hyper violent' thugs ignored UEFA's threat to ban their country from Euro 2016.
Chairs were thrown and a supporter was pictured lying on the ground outside a bar in the northern French city on the same day that Russia was fined and threatened with being thrown out of the tournament.
Concerns had already been raised about the security of fans as England prepare to take on Wales in Lens on Thursday and Russia play Slovakia in Lille on Wednesday, with the cities just 23 miles apart.
Witnesses said a group of Russians provoked English fans who were in a bar near Lille's central train station this afternoon before chairs were launched through the air. Two Russians have been arrested in the city centre.
The English are said to have responded, but the situation was calming down when police arrived.
In video footage posted on Twitter, chants of 'We're England and Wales, f**k off Russia, we're England and Wales' could be heard as police moved in to separate fans.
One masked Russian fan wore a t-shirt with the words 'Tour de France' and 'f**k Euro 2016 on the front - complete with a map of the host nation.
Footage also shows a man in a suit shouting 'allez', French for 'go', to hooded and masked fans posturing towards the England and Wales supporters outside Le Palais de la Biere bar next to the city's Hotel Continental.
He attempts to set chairs and tables right again before police officers move in between the two groups of fans.
Members of the public could also be seen gathering and taking photos of the melee.
The Russian Football Union had earlier been handed sanctions after crowd disturbances, use of fireworks and fan racism inside Marseille's Stade Velodrome in Saturday's 1-1 draw with England.
But the country's Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko described the punishment as 'excessive' while the team's striker Artem Dzyuba downplayed the role of the Russians saying England fans are 'no angels'.
It comes as armed French police circled a coach of 50 Russian supporters making their way to Lille today and said it will deport them - only for their thuggish fans to boast they had targeted the wrong group.
UEFA said Russia's 'disqualification is suspended until the end of the tournament. Such suspension will be lifted if incidents of a similar nature (crowd disturbances) happen inside the stadium at any of the remaining matches of the Russian team during the tournament.'
Dzyuba said: 'I don't understand the reaction of British media like the British supporters are like angels.
'We can see the things the British media are talking about, saying they have to take the World Cup from Russia.
'Fans are more or less the same everywhere. The majority come to watch football and some go to matches to cause trouble. I don't think only the Russian fans were to blame for the violence.'
His comments came after French riot police stopped a bus in Cannes carrying Russian supporters - including Alexander Shprygin, notorious far-right head of the Russian supporters union - who were travelling to Lille for Russia's next match at Euro 2016.
But the gloating Russian Ultras claimed they had swooped on the wrong coach and vowed to 'smash' Lille and Toulouse, where they play Wales on June 20.
A posting by Vadim Fedorovsky read: 'They deported those who did not participate. And those who took part will smash Lille and Toulouse. Happy watching'.
Another said: 'Let them deport these peaceful supporters led by Shprygin. The important thing is the main mob come to the place in the optimal numbers.'
Gleb Kovalenko posted: 'It's funny of course. Not one of these guys in the bus took part part in the fun in Marseille, those who did are either already in Lille or will be there tomorrow morning.
'They are not fools to get on a bus as a crowd. They are moving in groups of three to five people on trains and in rented cars.'
His comments emerged as it was claimed the Russian hooligans held 'trials' to find their 'best' fighters
Video showing brawling in secluded woods was said to be an 'audition' for thugs to take part in the Marseilles carnage.
The bus carrying Russian fans was stopped this morning after raids on addresses in Marseille and Cannes, it is claimed.
Six were placed in a holding centre ahead of being deported while another 35 were refusing to get out of their bus, French authorities said.
Far right leader Shprygin later tweeted saying he had left the bus and was in a police building.
He had been identified by Fare Network, the organisation that monitors racism in stadiums, as a leading figure in introducing neo-Nazi views and practices to the Russian football scene since the late 1990s.
'It is nonsense. They won't give us water and won't allow to switch on air conditioning. It is so hot and two people are unwell. They don't let us go to toilet. The situation is tense.
'We are waiting for representatives of the Russian Consulate.'
On Sunday night Shprygin claimed in a tweet that the Russian supporters union's hotel had been raided and that 40 armed French police had stormed their rooms, taken their passport details and photographed everyone.
Shprygin has been travelling with the official Russian FA delegation at Euro 2016 but is considered by the Fare network to be a main player in Russia's network of extreme-right ultra fan groups, the Guardian reported.
Since developing the Russian Supporters Union in 2007, Shprygin had appeared to tone down his rhetoric.
But he provoked outrage recently when he said he wanted to 'see only Slavic faces within the Russian national team' and how there was 'something wrong' with a team photo published by French player Mathieu Valbuena as it contained 'very many' black faces.
He has also been photographed giving a Nazi salute with a singer from Russian far-right rock band, Korrozia Metalla.
The beginning of the tournament has been marred by violence with English and Russian supporters clashing for three days in Marseille as hooliganism reared its ugly head.
There were clashes before the match as several hundred English and Russian fans squared off in the Old Port district, hurling beer bottles and chairs and drawing volleys of tear gas from riot police.
Then, inside the Stade Vélodrome Balaclava-clad Russian thugs - wearing gum shields and brandishing truncheons charged at the English fans at the final whistle - as well as firing a flare gun into a section of English supporters.
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