There have been a great deal of people who have suffered by what happened at Brussels and we must put that first in our thoughts to see that it doesn't happen again either overseas or here. We have to try to get the game cleaned up from these football hooligans and then perhaps we will be able once again to go back overseas but we have got to make it clear to everyone this is not the Britain we know or the Britain we fought for. We are not going to have it overseas or here and we are greviously concerned for what happened to those people who were in Brussels and who are no longer with us and greviously concerned for the injured, and the whole country is greviously concerned.
Interviewer
What was your reaction to the claims that the National Front could have been behind the original trouble?
Prime Minister
I have heard about this both in Brussels and at some occasions at home. We are determined to get anyone who acts as a football thug and who is a hooligan, no matter who they belong to or what organisation they belong to. We have got to get the evidence, these people have got to be caught, charged, brought before the Courts, and if convicted of serious crimes sentenced. Very stiff sentences handed out at Cambridgeshire, … five years—absolutely right in my view and we want more of that kind of sentence because the crimes are very severe indeed.
Interviewer
So you would actually like to see offences abroad being dealt with over here?
The Prime Minister
Offences being committed abroad should be dealt with abroad because at the moment we do not have the powers to deal with them over here. They ought to be tried where they are committed because the evidence is there and the people who can give evidence are there. The only place where that is not so, we have special arrangements sometimes, with regard to the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, but otherwise, except in the case of very, very serious offences like murder, the rule is that the offence has to be tried where it occurred.
Interviewer
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