Thursday, June 9, 2016

The Latest: No TV screens on French terraces during Euro (The Associated Press)

Picture shows Hotel Ermitage where the German national soccer team stays in Evian, France, Thursday, June 9, 2016. Germany will face the Ukraine in a Euro 2016 Group C soccer match in Lille on Sunday, June, 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Bar and restaurants owners won't be allowed to set up TV screens outside their businesses during the European soccer championship. France has been under a state of emergency since last November's coordinated attacks which killed 130 people at a rock concert, on the terraces of bars and restaurants and outside the Stade de France, the stadium where the football tournament will begin on Friday. The ban is expected to annoy bar owners, especially in the south of France were people spend warm summer evenings outdoors.


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