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English hooligans in Malmo go on a pre-planned rampage
MALMO. Sweden, June 14: English soccer supporters at the European Championship rampaged
through central Malmo early on Sunday in what police called a pre-planned riot masterminded by a hard-core of hooligans, repots Reuter.
Swedish police said 25 people were detailed during and after the two hours of unrest. Up to 200 fans used bicycles, benches and trash cans to smash windows and wreck cars.
Of these. 22 were English. Thirteen of them were remanded In custody, two deported and seven released without charge, a police spokesman said.
A further 20 people were injured, two of them policemen and the remainder English and Swedes, in battles which pitched an English mob wielding makeshift clubs against police and local youths, including Lebanese asylum seekers.
"It was pre-planned. Wc knew when, where and what the signal would be." Assistant Chief Constable Malcolm George.who heads a British police liaison team, told a news conference.
The riot was the first of the etght-naHon tournament and the worst in terms of damage to involve English fans abroad since the European Championship in Germany In 1988.
British Sports Minister David Mellor, in Malmo for Sunday's Group One game between England and France, called the incident deplorable when he visited Malmo s Stortorget main square, scat of the riot, to survey the damage
But he said it would "not remotely" affect the decision
by the European Football Union ( UEFA) earlier this year to award England the next European Championship finals in 1996.
"Nothing could be worse than people starting speculation about the future of the European Championship," Mellor told reporters.
Swedish organisers regretted the violence which they said had been caused by a minority. They said they would continue to be friendly towards English fans while they behaved.
The riot erupted on the stroke of midnight in the Stortorget Square where two youths had climbed on to the canvas roof of a big circus -style beer tenL
Malmo deputy police chief Gustaf Andersson identified the two youths as an Englishman and a Norwegian.
He said their descent from the roqf and the sound of a whistle blowing were the signal for a hard core of 60-70 hooligans to start showering police with bottles and plastic chairs.
Andersson acknowledged that heavily outnumbered riot police and mounted officers lost control of the square but said they had the situation in hand within 10 minutes.
Reporters who witnessed the riot said tt was up to one hour before police had enough men on hand to clear the square.
Police said there had also been minor disturbances over night at a camp site for English fans outside Malmo. Up to 100 fans wrecked the camp office.
Andersson said more police would be put on the streets on Sunday and added that it was so far unclear whether the beer tent would reopen.
But he defended a contro-
versial Swedish softly-softly approach to keeping the tournament free of hooliganism through friendly, low-key policing, beer tents, bands and other entertainment.
"Until last night it was very, very calm," Andersson told a news conference. "There were no problems at all and that for us was a response to our attitude to the supporters. We treated them as human beings," he said.
English league clubs- were banned from European competition for five years after 39 people, most of them Italians, were killed tn a riot at the 1985 European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus in the Heyscl Stadium in Brussels.
But liberal-minded Swedes had welcomed English fans with open arms despite the awesome reputation for violence of hooligans among them.
Local reaction to the riot was a mixture of anger and incomprehension.
"Why? Why?," asked Gunn Hand), the Malmo city councillor for recreation and sport. "So many people are asking the same question." she said.
About 2.500 English fans are staying in Sweden or In neighbouring Denmark for the soccer tournament.
Police in Copenhagen, a short ferry ride from Malmo, said 15 English fans were held overnight for being drunk and released when they sobered up.
The England team move on Monday to Stockholm where they play Sweden on Wednesday.
English and Swedish hooh gans rioted in the Swedish capital the last time the two teams met there three years ago.