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The attacks of Russian football hooligans on English fans in Marseille and Lille "look like a continuation of a hybrid war unleashed by Putin." According to The Guardian, a certain high -ranking official of the British government, named after which the publication does not specify it, told her.
“It is difficult to prove that this is connected with the Kremlin,” the interlocutor of the publication admitted. “However, it is clear that many of them (Russians - participants in attacks. - Ed.) - employees of Russian power structures.” Such a conclusion, the official added, the government was made on the basis of monitoring of social networks.
As government experts suggest, the goal of attacks in France is a demonstration of the power of Russia beyond its borders, while the country's idea is being imposed that the rest of the world has been upset against it.
Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov so commented on the publication of The Guardian: “This does not require any reaction. This is another example of what some in their Russophobic hysteria reach.”
On Thursday, the court in France sentenced three Russian football fans to real prison terms for participating in fights in Marseille before the match between the national teams of Russia and England. Alexey Nevrunov, Sergey Gorbachev and Nikolai Morozov received two, and a half and one year of prison, respectively.
On Tuesday, all three were detained along with 40 other Russian fans on the bus, who went to Lille for the Russia -Slovakia match. In relation to 20 of them, the French authorities decided to expel from the country . According to one of these 20 - the head of the All -Russian association of the fans of Alexander Schopygin - the cause of the French authorities called the "potential threat" represented by Russian fans. On Saturday, as Shoplygin wrote on his Twitter, expelled were taken to Moscow.
On Wednesday, it was also decided to expel four Russian fans from France , detained in Lille before the match of Russia -Slovakia.
Meanwhile, on Friday, the court in the German Cologne arrested five Russian fans detained for the attack on three Spaniards, who stuck antif leaflets on the pillars. One of the left activists broke their nose.