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08/08/2016
Russian fans expelled from France during the European football championship, until August 23, will appeal against the decision of the French Consulate to cancel their Schengen visas.
Oleg Semenov, Deputy Director of the European legal service (EJ) - a partner of the Russian football Union (RFU) at the European championship in 2016, told TASS.
The group stage match of the European football championship England-Russia (1: 1), which took place in Marseille on June 11, was marred by riots involving English, Russian and French fans, which resulted in more than 30 people were injured. On June 14, French law enforcement officers detained a bus with Russian fans near Marseille, in which there were 43 people. Three of them on June 16 were sentenced to prison terms of one to two years for participation in street riots before the match, in addition, they are banned from entering the territory of France for two years.
"The French Consulate sends letters both to the expelled fans, and those who went in the bus of VOB (all-Russian Association of fans), and cancels visas, but in these letters the reason of cancellation of the visa isn't specified. The fans spent the night in Marseille, were released and now until August 23 intend to appeal to the Commission to review the decisions on the refusal of an entry visa, which is located in Nantes. The fans appealed to us, we translated the documents, gave them a legal assessment, made the text of the appeal. Then the fans have to send the documents by mail, " Semenov said.
"It is unclear how this will affect the further possibility of obtaining a Schengen visa, because the data on canceled visas are included in the Schengen information system SIS", - he added.
All other Russian fans, passengers of the bus detained and forwarded to Marseille, avoided prosecution. At the same time, the French authorities decided to expel 20 people from among the detainees, believing that among them are "violent and well-trained hooligans", although viewing 200 hours of video footage of street riots did not allow investigators to identify anyone. Another 20 Russian fans were released.
Oleg Semenov, Deputy Director of the European legal service (EJ) - a partner of the Russian football Union (RFU) at the European championship in 2016, told TASS.
The group stage match of the European football championship England-Russia (1: 1), which took place in Marseille on June 11, was marred by riots involving English, Russian and French fans, which resulted in more than 30 people were injured. On June 14, French law enforcement officers detained a bus with Russian fans near Marseille, in which there were 43 people. Three of them on June 16 were sentenced to prison terms of one to two years for participation in street riots before the match, in addition, they are banned from entering the territory of France for two years.
"The French Consulate sends letters both to the expelled fans, and those who went in the bus of VOB (all-Russian Association of fans), and cancels visas, but in these letters the reason of cancellation of the visa isn't specified. The fans spent the night in Marseille, were released and now until August 23 intend to appeal to the Commission to review the decisions on the refusal of an entry visa, which is located in Nantes. The fans appealed to us, we translated the documents, gave them a legal assessment, made the text of the appeal. Then the fans have to send the documents by mail, " Semenov said.
"It is unclear how this will affect the further possibility of obtaining a Schengen visa, because the data on canceled visas are included in the Schengen information system SIS", - he added.
All other Russian fans, passengers of the bus detained and forwarded to Marseille, avoided prosecution. At the same time, the French authorities decided to expel 20 people from among the detainees, believing that among them are "violent and well-trained hooligans", although viewing 200 hours of video footage of street riots did not allow investigators to identify anyone. Another 20 Russian fans were released.