EDL leader Tommy Robinson shows up at Euro 2016 with flag declaring war on jihadists
Bungling cops banned him from travelling AFTER he's left for France
EX-EDL chief Tommy Robinson flaunted a ‘F*** ISIS’ St George’s Flag at Euro 2016 – after bungling cops served a football banning order on him when he had already left for France.
Dad-of-two Robinson, 33, who now leads anti-Islamic group Pegida UK, is also pictured in a t-shirt showing a cartoon England fan weeing on a black ISIS flag below the words “no surrender”.
Bedfordshire cops tried to serve the banning order on the convicted football hooligan on Monday but Robinson bragged he’d already left for France by the time police called at his family home.
In a series of tweets Robinson wrote: “So @bedspolice have again today targeted my family’s home.
“They arrived in front of my wife and kids to give me a football banning order.
“I have committed no crime since I come off my three year ban. I have only taken my children to football. Their only problem is I’m already in France.
“This is on going state persecution because of my opposition to Islam. I hope to have to best legal representatives to challenge this.”
Tensions are simmering in France after blood-thirsty attacks by Russian ultras on English and Welsh fans and an IS fanatic knifed to death a French police commander and his wife this week.
Today he posted a picture of himself with the ‘F*** ISIS’ flag in Lyon alongside fans in German football strips.
In July 2011 Robinson was convicted of leading a street brawl with 100 football fans.
Yelling “EDL till I die”, he encouraged fellow Luton Town hooligans as they clashed in the town with Newport County fans.
He was found guilty of using threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour and sentenced to a 12-month community rehabilitation order, 150 hours of unpaid work, and a three year football banning order.
Robinson – in floppy blue hat and shades – announced he was in France on Monday.
Bedfordshire Police said: “The UK Policing Football Unit requested our support in issuing a football banning order to a man living in Luton.
“Officers from Bedfordshire Police attended the man’s address to issue the order, however, they were informed that the man had already travelled to France.”
The United Kingdom Football Policing Unit said they asked Bedfordshire cops to issue the banning order “as soon as they received intelligence to suggest this was necessary”.
Assistant Chief Constable Mark Roberts, National Police Chiefs’ Council Lead for Football Policing, said: “The operation to prevent troublemakers from travelling to France has been highly successful with 99 per cent of those with football banning orders handing in their passports before the start of the tournament.
“Since the tournament started, we have stopped 16 people subject to banning orders from travelling, arrested 15 people and following intelligence we’ve imposed an additional seven football banning orders.”
However, Robinson gleefully tweeted a defiant video from inside the Stade Bollaert-Delelis stadium, Lens, during Thursday England v Wales game.
He tagged the video: “No where I’d rather be.”
Robinson – real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – became the figurehead for far-right English Defence League which started in response to a demonstration by Muslim extremists as soldiers marched through his hometown of Luton.
The group – largely made up of football ‘firms’- was infamous for street protests across the country which often led to violent clashes with opponents like Unite Against Fascism.
He quit the EDL in 2013 warning about the “dangers of far-right extremism”.
In February 2015, he helped organisation Pegida UK’s first march. Formedd in Germany, Pegida stands for Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident
Robinson said last year said: “Do I think we should go back to the street demonstrations that we had with the EDL? No.
“But I think the time has come to unite across Europe because we have to save our culture.”
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