Paris, July 11: France maintained a high degree of security and arrested 1,550 individuals since the beginning of the Euro football championship on June 10 amid heightened fears of terror attacks, its government said on Monday.
France's Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve pointed out that of all those detained, 891 remained under arrest and 59 had been sentenced, while 64 people were deported after the violent clashes between Russian and English 'hooligans' in Marseille on June 11, reports Efe.