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Football fans traveling to Ukraine for this summer's European Championships have been warned they will face a "criminal" police force mired in so many abuse scandals that their behavior threatens to ruin the showpiece tournament.

The Amnesty International report "Ukraine: Euro 2012 jeopardised by criminal police force" details how Ukraine’s security forces have been implicated in numerous cases of torture and extortion in cities due to host matches.

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