Putin questions how 200 Russians 'beat up' thousands of English
by Daily Sabah
ISTANBULJun 18, 2016 - 12:00 am GMT+3
by Daily Sabah
Jun 18, 2016 12:00 am
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday called the football hooligan violence at Euro 2016 a "disgrace" but questioned how Russian fans could have overpowered a far larger contingent of English supporters.
"The fighting between Russian fans with the English, that is a disgrace," he said at Russia's annual economic forum in Saint Petersburg.
"But I truly don't understand how 200 of our fans could beat up several thousand English," he said, to laughs and applause from the audience.
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