England fans at it again ! Great the world sees beer bellied fans at their finest. Around 100 arrests were made in the early hours of Saturday morning by police in Stuttgart. Police said a number of bottles and chairs were thrown into a crowd by a rowdy group of fans from the terrace of a bar in the city's main square. Arrests were for chair-throwing, fighting with passing Germans, breaking windows and for possession of cocaine . A police spokesman said the fans who were arrested would go before a judge. They could be banned from the city centre. The square is also the location of the Fans Fest, the main big screen facility in the city. Stuttgart police spokesman Stefan Keilbach said: "English fans had been drinking all day outside a cafe in the Schlossplatz and they became aggressive, throwing chairs and bottles at other people and the police. "Officers made 100 arrests. Nobody was hurt." Insulting songs Assistant Chief Constable Stephen Thomas, who's in charge of the British police officers in Germany for the World Cup told the BBC how the trouble started. "By six o'clock there were 300 to 400 people singing racist and quite insulting songs about quite a lot of people, throwing some chairs, bottles and tables, and at that stage the German police tried to disperse them. "A hard core of about 80 to 100 refused to go and had a standoff with police, and then a decision was taken to arrest them under the preventative powers the police here in Germany have." No doubt more to come.
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