England fans clash with police in Marseille
England football fans clashed with police as violence returned for a second night in the French port town of Marseille.
Tear gas was deployed by officers trying to disperse the troublemakers but the ugly skirmishes continued as darkness fell.
In scenes reminiscent of the dark days of hooliganism, bare-chested England fans threw beer bottles at police dressed in full riot gear.
Fist fights broke out between English and French speaking men, and one man was thrown into the harbour after he was beaten to the ground.
Police with helmets, batons and shields stood shoulder to shoulder along the cobbled street facing a line of England fans, some of whom threw bottles.
A fan wearing a red England shirt was handcuffed and arrested.
The violence first broke out at around 6.20pm French time outside the Queen Victoria pub in the Old Port district where England fans had been drinking for most of the day.
Fans sang songs about the IRA, German bombers being shot down and the national anthem.
Supporters are in Marseille ahead of England's Euro 2016 game with Russia on Saturday.
Kevin Miles, chief executive of the Football Supporters' Federation which runs the fans embassy in Marseille, said he believed the locals turned up with the intention of provoking the English fans.
"There's not huge numbers of England fans in town yet, probably the biggest congregation anywhere was outside this pub," he said.
"People were drinking and having a bit of a sing-song all day, the French police were very relaxed, letting them get on with it.
"It was all fine until, our understanding is, a group of around 30 to 40 locals turned up, I think with the intention of provoking the England fans to see if they could get a rise out of them.
"In those circumstances it's the police's job to prevent a confrontation and they used French methods to do so, which we're not particularly used to.
"They used tear gas, which is a little bit indiscriminate for my liking, but it did the job and the problems were over. There were a couple of arrests of English fans as they responded to that provocation."
He said: "The police have confirmed that version of events. I understand one England fan has been treated in hospital for a head injury which apparently isn't serious, and there have been two English arrests."
Mr Miles said he did not believe the incident set the tone for the rest of the tournament but was just 10 minutes at the end of the night after people had spent the day enjoying themselves.
He said: "In a city like Marseille, where it has its own domestic social problems, particularly with the youth culture who see the arrival of lots of foreigners singing on their streets as a provocation to them, which clearly it isn't, it's just people coming to enjoy themselves."
Thousands more England fans are expected to arrive in the historic port city before the game on Saturday, with the tournament kicking off tonight as the hosts France play Romania.