The incidents ahead of the latest Champions League final were caused by a “series of mistakes” and not by the presence of Liverpool fans at the Stade de France, the French Senate concluded on Wednesday.
“It didn’t all go wrong because there were a lot of Liverpool fans in the immediate vicinity of the stadium following their team,” said Laurent Lafont, president of the lower house’s cultural committee, during a presentation of the conclusions of the analysis of the incidents that occurred on May 28 at the stadium. Stade de France.
The head of the legislative commission, François-Noel Buffet, who accompanied Lafont to the presentation, said Home Secretary Gérald Darmanin was not telling the truth when he initially blamed the incidents on many English fans who tried to enter the stadium with fake tickets.
“The words of the Secretary of the Interior did not match what actually happened,” Buffett said.
Minister Gerald Darmanin accused British supporters of being primarily responsible for the incidents, which he said were caused by “massive industrial and organized counterfeit ticket fraud”.
The Senate committees involved in the investigation concluded that the incidents that delayed the start of the game between Real Madrid and Liverpool by 36 minutes were due to a “series of errors” at “all stages” of organization and execution. . security plan and lack of coordination between different actors.
In addition to delaying the start of the game, the failure to send spectators with tickets on time caused chaos in accessing Stade Saint-Denis on the outskirts of Paris.
Pushing, trying to get through without tickets, mistreatment of fans by the security forces or victims of robberies – all this was witnessed by those who came to the game, which Real Madrid won 1-0.
Two days after the game, UEFA announced the launch of an “independent investigation” into security breaches in the final, led by former Portuguese education minister Thiago Brandão Rodrigues.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
