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A antheral walks past a mural depicting England's manager Gareth Southgate, skipper Harry Kane and Raheem Sterling, from left, painted connected a partition adjacent Vinegar Yard successful southbound London, Wednesday July 14, 2021. England mislaid the Euro 2020 shot title last lucifer to Italy connected Sunday July 11. (AP Photo/Tony Hicks)

LONDON – British constabulary said Thursday they person made 11 arrests successful transportation with the online radical maltreatment of England shot players pursuing their team's nonaccomplishment to Italy successful the last of the European Championship past month.

Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka endured a barrage of maltreatment aft they missed penalties successful England's shootout decision astatine London's Wembley Stadium connected July 11.

The U.K. Football Policing Unit said it has requested information from societal media companies to beforehand its probe and has passed connected accusation to section constabulary forces, which truthful acold person arrested 11 radical connected suspicion of a fig of offences, including malicious communications.

“There are radical retired determination who judge they tin fell down a societal media illustration and get distant with posting specified abhorrent comments," Cheshire Chief Constable Mark Roberts, who leads shot policing for the National Police Chiefs’ Council, said. “They request to deliberation again."

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The portion said that of the 207 transgression societal media posts identified, 123 accounts beryllium to individuals extracurricular the U.K. and their details are being shared with the applicable countries. It added that it is waiting for accusation connected the remaining 50 relationship holders.

Roberts said the Football Policing Unit is “seeking engagement” with the players themselves to connection enactment and to question their input connected the probe and immoderate consequent prosecutions.

The 3 Black players targeted were portion of a young England squad that has been wide praised for its diverseness and societal conscience. Rashford, for one, has been astatine the forefront of a run against kid poorness that convinced the British authorities to reconstruct escaped lunches for thousands of mediocre children amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Those arrested truthful acold scope successful property from 18 to 63. They person each either been released portion nether further probe oregon posted bail with orders to instrumentality to tribunal astatine a aboriginal date.

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The maltreatment was wide condemned. Prince William, the president of the English Football Association, said helium was “sickened” by the racism aimed astatine the England players.

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