England Fans make 7 year old Muslim Refugee drink Beer for their spare change

England fans have been accused of making a seven-year-old boy drink “a whole beer in exchange for some coins” in the French town of Lille ahead of Thursday’s Euro 2016 match against Wales.

The incident was witnessed by Michael Stothard, the Paris correspondent for the Financial Times, who claimed that a group of England fans would only give the young boy some money if he downed a beer in front of them. Mr Stothard posted a picture on his Twitter account showing the boy, who could not be identified, and included the caption: “England fans in Lille just got begging 7 year old to down a whole beer in exchange for some coins. #EURO2016.”

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Mr Stothard’s tweet attracted mass attention on Twitter, and in replying to one user who asked if he had personally seen the incident, he said: “I saw it, yes. He downed the bottle in five gulps to raucous cheers. Then was handed money. They gave him a cigarette too.

“But he threw the cigarette on the ground and stamped it out. The fans looked disappointed.”
The incident comes a day after British football fans were accused of “taunting begging children” in Lille by throwing money on the floor and making them pick it up.

Video footage showed fans drinking outside a restaurant in the northern French city next to a group of children, with coins being seen and heard landing on the ground