Unfortunately when talking about this year's tournament, we need to mention the riots that have surrounded the games. English and Russian fans were involved in a massive violent outburst following their match over the weekend. 30 people were injured from that chaos. And now a Marseille court has convicted six English soccer fans and handed down prison sentences ranging from one-to-three months to five of them for their involvement. The swift sentencing, on the surface appears to be sending a message to potential hooligans for the rest of the month-long tournament that any violent act will not be tolerated.

"I have the feeling that the sentences given today, in general, are a consequence of the actual climate of fear, since the beginning of the Euros. We are living with fear, with risk. I think that, in another context, the sentences would have been totally different," said Henri Viguier defence lawyer.

"It's a joke. It's pathetic. What's the phrase for French justice? No, doesn't make sense, doesn't make sense. You see more justice in kangaroo court. I was with him all the time, yes. He threw nothing. He threw absolutely nothing. No bottles, not plastic or any other kind of bottle. I was with him all the time and I got other witness who were with me when this alleged throwing took place," said Chris Booth father of jailed English fan.

At the same court, a French man was sentenced to a year in prison and an Austrian was given a five-month prison term, One English man was given a suspended one-month sentence. All foreigners involved in the riots have been banned from France for two years. There were no Russians on trial, despite a Marseille prosecutor blaming 'highly trained' Russian thugs for the worst of the violence in the cobbled streets of the city's Old Port and around the Stade Velodrome.