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Fans Freed After Violence

 

More than 300 English football fans arrested after clashes in Stuttgart have been released.

 

They have been banned from the city centre but will be allowed into England's match against Ecuador - if they have a ticket.

 

German riot police intervened to separate German and England fans after bottles and bar furniture was thrown in the main square.

 

The crowds had been watching the Germany beat Sweden on big screens.

 

Several hundred England fans were drinking on steps at the back of the square and began taunting the German fans in front of them.

 

Shortly after the game finished, they began throwing plastic chairs and bottles at German fans, who retaliated by throwing some back.

 

Dozens of riot police, who had been observing nearby, moved in and pushed German fans away before cordoning off a group of England fans on the steps.

 

An ambulance arrived and one man in a Germany shirt was seen with his face covered in blood.

 

The England fans continued an uneasy stand-off with a line of riot police and several more bottles were thrown sporadically by England and Germany fans.

 

Around 30,000 England fans are expected to attend the Ecuador match in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadion.

[seasidesteve]

it seems to me that if they have been released before the game they must have done very little wrong

[Boney Crisp]

It was inevitable that is going to happen, but it does make ashamed to be English sometimes.