French police fire tear gas at English football fans in Lille

PARIS (Reuters) - French police used pepper spray and tear gas to disperse English football fans on Wednesday near the train station in the northern city of Lille, one of the venues of the Euro 2016 tournament, a police source said.

French police fire tear gas at English football fans in Lille

(Reuters)





Police intervened after fans starting running in all directions following a detonation of unknown origin, the source told Reuters.

Earlier in the same area, police pushed away a group of English fans when they began to be threatening, the source said.





(Reporting by Pierre Savary; Writing by Ingrid Melander; Editing by Mark Heinrich)


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