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Drunken English soccer fans rampaged through a Frankfurt bar late Saturday in a third straight night of disturbances in West Germany.

About 300 English and German rowdies, including 16 right-wing extremists, have been arrested or placed under preventive detention in three cities in the latest round of soccer-related clashes and vandalism by fans attending the European Championships.

Police rounded up about two dozen English and German soccer fans late Saturday night, several hours after the Soviet Union’s 3-1 victory over England.

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Frankfurt police spokesman Kurt Kraus said 72 English and 16 West German supporters were jailed Saturday.

“The Germans are members of the notorious Eagle Front fan club,” Kraus said. The Eagle Front is a group of violence-prone young fans who profess right-wing extremist beliefs and often have tattoos of neo-Nazi emblems resembling swastikas.

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