A steward picks up a flare which was thrown onto the pitch by supporters during Euro 2016.

A French football fan shoved an 18cm-long flare up his rectum in order to smuggle it into a Euro 2016 game.

He then pulled the device out and set it off in the crowd, burning himself and two others in the process, before being charged over the incident by French police.

Flares are banned from all stadiums at Euro 2016, but the 18-year-old fan smuggled the device into the fanzone at the ground in Nice, in the south of France.

It's the latest in some bizarre instances of fan violence during the European championships.

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Nice prosecutor Jean-Michel Pretre told the Daily Mail the supporter managed to burn himself and two other fans when he set the flare off.

He will appear at Nice Correctional Court this week, and faces a fine.

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