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Soccer thugs will be at World Cup
A small number of
"hardcore" England football hooligans will reach Germany, despite police
efforts to stop them, a senior officer has conceded.
Commander Bob Broadhurst, leading the London police operation against
World Cup-related violence, said the countless ways of reaching the
Continent meant that determined troublemakers might get through.
But he said work by hundreds of officers at ports and airports across
the country would help to "isolate" hardcore hooligans by stopping their
"followers" from travelling.
The Metropolitan Police officer was speaking at Heathrow Airport, where
his colleagues are already carrying out checks on people who may be
heading to Germany ahead of England's opening game on Saturday.
Specialist football intelligence officers are at ports across the
country, checking the passports of anyone they suspect is travelling to
the Continent to support England, in an attempt to weed out potential
troublemakers.
About 3,500 people are on football banning orders that require them to
hand in their passport before the tournament begins, but up to 200 have
failed to do so.
Police hope to snare those that are still at large by catching them at
airports like Heathrow, or by tracking them down elsewhere and arresting
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