Yes, I read that in our press to Lutz, and to me it's a sense of relief. My son phoned yesterday and said they were having a great time and the Germans he had met were extremely friendly. He and his friend had also been drinking with some Germans they had met and exchanged mobile phone #s. He had received a text off one of them to arrange a football match and they are meeting up today for a game. A similar thing happened in France when England played Algeria in Marseille, my son even had is pic taken with the Algerians on the beach. The following day it was different. The English were sat on the beach watching on the big screen whilst the Algerians were in the erected stands. As soon as England scored WW3 broke out. The Algerians ripped the seats up and threw them at the English supporters below, even at females holding youngsters. When the English retalliated they were then attacked by the French police. They were chased along the streets by the police weilding batons while the Algerians followed up behind recking restaurants to get chairs etc. and threw those over the police's heads at the English. The restaurant owners were terrified. My son and his friend hid in the toilet of one restaurant then the owner got them a taxi back to their hotel. They decided to leave Marseille that night, mainly because the city is populated by North Africans. The hotel owner called a taxi to take them to the airport but when it arrived it was an Arab driver and when he saw they were English he drove away. The owner then took them to the station. How do I know all of this? Because I watched it live as it happened on Sky TV. I even saw the fear in the restaurant owners faces as they saw their property being destroyed and the police more intent on revenge for Joan of Arc than their own citizens. My son has French friends and they told him the French don't consider Marseille as part of France. They also told him the French police wouldn't baton charge the Algerians because of the race situation in Marseille, if they did the whole city would have rioted so they took the easy option. What was interesting is there wasn't one Algerian arrested. I was surprised there wasn't political fall out over it but not a word from our government at the time except from the English press, one upmarket tabloid who printed a photo of 6 people booting someone on the floor with the headlines of Why Should We Be Proud Of These Thugs? The stupidity of it was all 6 shown in the photo were of North African descent, not English. If tabloids like that print such lies and some believe it what hope have England supporters got. Don't worry Lutz, I know it wont happen in Germany, you are not France and hopefully will never resemble them :O) It was nice to hear my sons comments on how they are treated and lets hope some can now put 1914-18 and 1939-45 to rest once and for all, it could be a new beginning with this generation.
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