Six England fans have been jailed and banned from France after appearing in a Marseille court charged in connection with the weekend violence.
Alexander Booth and Ian Hepworth were the first fans to be dealt with after the widespread trouble in the French port city.
Booth, 20, from Huddersfield, was jailed for two months for throwing a bottle at police and banned from France for two years.
Hepworth, 41, a psychiatric nurse from Sheffield, was given a three-month sentence for the same offence and the same ban.
Lee Phillips, 23, and Paul Jackson, 21, were both jailed for one month, while Ashley Kelly, 26, was given a three-month sentence following the violence in Marseille.
Steven Cornell, 28, was the sixth England fan to be jailed and was given two months.
Reacting to the sentence, Booth’s father Chris, who was later seen in tears, said “I’ll fight it” and described it as a “miscarriage”.
Before being dealt with, Booth told the court: “I would like to say sorry to the police and to the people and city of Marseille. This is not like me; I’m not a violent person. I love my job and my family. I’ve never been involved in football hooliganism.
“I was in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
Booth was accused of throwing a plastic bottle at the police during the trouble.
Still wearing his England shirt, he said it may have looked like it was aimed for the police but it was not.
He said: “I have never had problems with the police; I respect the police very much. I am hard working.”
According to court papers, it was Booth’s 20th birthday on Sunday.
Hepworth was accused of throwing a bottle at the police and then walking forward to pick up a second bottle.
He claimed he could not remember what had happened.
The injured England fan, Andrew Bache, 50, from Portsmouth, was in a critical condition in a French hospital after being beaten round the head by Russians armed with iron bars.
Russian fans charged at England supporters in the Stade Velodrome after the two teams drew 1-1 on Saturday night.
But Brice Robin, chief Marseille prosecutor, told reporters that no Russian fans had been arrested in connection with the violence.
Mr Robin said about 150 Russian hooligans had been involved in the trouble, describing them as “hyper violent” and “hyper rapid”.
However, a total of six England fans have been charged over the trouble, including a 16-year-old accused of throwing bottles during the chaotic scenes.
