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The thread discusses a reported Russian “insider” explaining alleged violence around Euro 2016, including claims that certain hooligan groups train for fights and that concerns about match-related violence may be exaggerated. A key question raised is the credibility and context of the individual’s statements—particularly his past involvement with separatist forces in eastern Ukraine versus his claim that he’s only in France to watch football. Overall sentiment is skeptical and pointed, with commenters framing the violence narrative as tied to broader conflict and questioning the sincerity of the accounts.
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Nikolai cannot understand why so much fuss is being made about the violence during the Euro 2016 championship. He has, he said, seen far worse. That, indeed, is the case – the young Russian had served as a “volunteer” with separatist forces in Ukraine’s bloody civil war.

Two years ago, at the towns of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk, in rebel eastern Ukraine, Nikolai had claimed that he was there to distribute aid and help those injured in the fighting, rather than take part in combat himself. Now he insists that he is in France simply to watch the football and not to seek any trouble.
Euro 2016: Russian insider reveals football hooligans are ‘more than Ultras’ who train for fights with martial arts
 

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