Ultras planning to attack referee during Spain match, warn Croatian police

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The French authorities have been issued a warning over more crowd trouble during Croatia's Euro 2016 clash against Spain on Tuesday night.

A group of Croatian ultras disrupted last Friday's game against the Czech Republic by throwing flares onto the field. Croatia were on their way to scoring a 2-1 win when the incident happened with one flare exploding in the face of a steward who was trying to clear the pitch. Croatia were fined €100,000 and may very well have dropped two points over the incident. The players pleaded for calm from their supporters while play was stopped before conceding a penalty in added time, which was converted by Tomas Necid. https://twitter.com/SportsJOEdotie/status/743975319913250820?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw French authorities have been alerted of another demonstration from the Croatian ultras during the Spain game, reports Goal.com. The group are planning an attack on referee Bjorn Kuijpers, according to president of the Croatian Police Union, Nikola Kajkic.

"We have information that the same people that caused trouble in St. Etienne will try the same, and even try to attack the referee in 30th minute of the match." "All info we received ahead of Czech match proved to be right and as this time, we passed all info to French police."

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The French authorities have been issued a warning over more crowd trouble during Croatia's Euro 2016 clash against Spain on Tuesday night.

The French authorities have been issued a warning over more crowd trouble during Croatia's Euro 2016 clash against Spain on Tuesday night.

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