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"This is one of the five risky matches of the tournament ...
British and Russians with the heat, that can be explosive,"
Sports Minister Patrick Kanner told i-Television on Saturday.
"Everything will be done to secure that match tonight" he added.
French police stepped in to break up small groups of English and
Russian fans who squared up and hurled taunts at one another in
Marseille, southern France, on Friday.
Late Thursday, about 100 England fans and 50 local residents
were involved in another fracas around the Vieux Port (Old Port)
area, where several English and Irish bars are located.
In the 1998 World Cup, England fans were involved in serious
disorder over several days in Marseille before and after a match
against Tunisia.
About 1,000 police will be deployed in the Mediterranean city as
up to 70,000 England fans and 20,000 Russians arrive ahead of
the match between the two countries.
The tournament kicked off on Thursday with France still under a
state of emergency after Islamist militants launched
simultaneous assaults on entertainment venues in Paris in
November, killing 130 people.
(Reporting by Dominique Vidalon; Editing by Mark Potter)
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