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Two English soccer fans were convicted by a French court on Monday of involvement in rioting and sentenced to two and three months in prison. The convictions in a packed Marseille courtroom came just hours after prosecutors said ''highly-trained'' Russian hooligans were responsible for the worst violence in three days of rioting before, during and after England and Russia played to a 1-1 draw in their first match of the European Championship. Alex Booth, a chef who spent his 20th birthday in a French cell after his arrest and wore an England shirt in court, clasped his head in his hands and looked imploringly at his father as a judge sentenced him to two months and banned him from entering France for two years.
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