• Stewards needed hospital treatment after trouble breaks out
• Russian fans accused of attacking stadium security guards
Four stewards needed hospital treatment after reportedly being attacked by Russian fans at Wroclaw stadium after the Russia v Czech Republic Euro 2012 clash on Friday, the head of the Polish company in charge of coordinating the tournament said.
"After the Russia-Czech Republic match a fight broke out. A large number of fans in Russia T-shirts attacked security guards then ran away. Four guards were hospitalised but soon released after receiving first aid," Marcin Herra told TVP INFO (Polish State Television) on Saturday. "Such things can occur over the next 22 days. If it gets hot, drinks will be consumed and such things can happen. It's a normal situation."
A police spokesman also reported a fight in a Wroclaw restaurant on Friday night between four Russians. One of them suffered injuries and was taken to hospital for first aid.
Russian and Ukrainian fans also scuffled briefly in the streets of Lviv in the early hours of Saturday after watching the Russia v Czech Republic game in the city's fan zone, eyewitnesses said.
Around 15 Russian fans, delighted at their side's impressive 4-1 win, left the zone and started shouting and swearing at a smaller group of Ukrainians, said Reuters photographer Marian Striltsiv. The two sides exchanged a few punches before local police quickly moved in and separated the combatants. No arrests were made. One picture taken by a local agency showed a man with blood streaming from his nose.
Police denied there had been any violence and said they had prevented the two sides from fighting. Tensions between the two nationalities are particularly high in Lviv, in the far west of the country, in part because of Ukrainian resentment at Soviet rule from 1939 to 1991.
The Lviv region was the centre of a resistance campaign by Ukrainian nationalists fighting for independence from the Soviet Union during and after the second world war.
One of the main nationalist leaders was Stepan Bandera, a man still widely regarded as a hero in western Ukraine and as a bandit by Russia. Fans of local side Karpaty Lviv always show a huge banner of Bandera during home games. Read More
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