The head of a Russian soccer supporters' association, Alexander Shprygin, is among 20 Russian fans who are to expelled from France over the coming days, a police source said on Thursday.
The 20 are from a group of 43 detained by police in the Marseille region on Tuesday after violence flared at their Euro 2016 match against England.
Shprygin told Reuters by telephone on Tuesday that a bus carrying himself and other supporters to Lille in northern France had been stopped by riot police in Cannes in the south of the country.
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