Police have spoken to three men they were seeking in connection with an alleged racist incident involving Chelsea fans on a Paris Metro train.

Police in England are seeking three Chelsea football fans they believe were involved in an allegedly racist incident on a Paris Metro train.

The black man pushed off a Paris Metro train by Chelsea football fans chanting a racist song has said the perpetrators must be punished.

A group of Chelsea thugs prevented a black man getting on to a train in Paris before chanting: “We’re racist and that’s the way we like it.”

A key suspect in a deadly series of terror attacks in Paris in 1995 went on trial today after a decade-long battle by France for his extradition from Britain.

A suspected Islamist terror cell broken up in France is thought to have been plotting attacks on the Paris Metro, an airport and an intelligence agency’s headquarters, it was claimed today.

Prosecutors denied today that a terror suspect arrested in Milan and believed to be a mastermind of the Madrid train bombings was planning an attack on the Paris underground system.

A court in Paris has convicted and sentenced two Islamic militants to life in prison for their roles in a 1995 campaign of bombings of the Paris Metro that killed eight and wounded more than 200.

A former British soldier whose evidence is central to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry has told the tribunal that his personal diary notes of the events of January 30, 1972, were stolen by French transvestites.