Video of the hundreds of amateur images collected by “Le Monde” underline the maladjustment and disorganization of the reception and security devices during the final of the football champions league on Saturday May 28. They also maintain doubts about the frequentation figures put forward by the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
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Delayed match, dangerously compressed crowds, tear gas … The final of the Champions League between Liverpool and Real Madrid, Saturday May 28, turned to chaos for supporters and nightmare for the French government and the union of European Football Associations (UEFA), organizer of the event. For the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, the main reason for this fiasco is the existence of “industrial fraud of false tickets”. What really happened?
Our investigation reveals that if the presence of supporters without a ticket or provided with a false ticket was very real this May 28, and moreover provided by the French authorities, this is not what caused the incidents that occurred Around the Stade de France, in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis). Thanks to hundreds of photos and videos of events published on social networks, the world video survey was able to reconstruct the course of the facts and the routes taken by the thousands of supporters that evening. Documents as close as possible to events, which reveal an erratic reception system and the maladjustment of the maintenance of order around the stadium.