Posted on 06/13/2016 8:16:53 AM PDT by Eurotwit
A top football official in Moscow has praised the Russian fans involved in violence over the weekend in Marseille, saying they had defended their country’s honour and should be forgiven.
“I don’t see anything wrong with the fans fighting,” Igor Lebedev wrote on Twitter. “Quite the opposite, well done lads, keep it up!”
Lebedev, who sits on the executive committee of the Russian football union, is an MP from the nationalist Liberal Democratic party and the deputy chairman of the Russian parliament.
“I don’t understand those politicians and officials who are criticising our fans. We should defend them, and then we can sort it out when they come home,” Lebedev wrote in a series of tweets.
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Someone could have easily been killed. The Russian gorillas rampaged through a neutral section full of women and children to attack the English fans inside the stadium.
About all that is left now is a “reality show” like the Running Man.
Good grief!
“He was surprised how chilled everyone was before the college football game.”
Apparently you didn’t take him to a 9pm Nationally Televised SEC game. Last time I went there were dozens of drunken brawls and cinderblocks being thrown threw the windshields of opposing fans cars.
The most head scratching thing about modern day Russia is why even knuckleheads Russians would consider somehow associating themselves with the Nazis when they killed almost 30 MM Russians and other Soviet people.
It was a SEC game.
I think he meant West Virginia or Maryland.
Oh, it gets better
Senior Russian official says French police are only used to ‘gay parades’
Right now English fans are attacking a mosque in Marseilles.
With bacon and sausages.
Europe is such a clusterfu##.
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