In a report presented on Wednesday, senators recommend fifteen measures to prevent such a fiasco from happening again.
Le Monde with AFP
Senator Laurent Lafon (UDI), president of the Culture Commission, spoke of Wednesday July 13 “a chain of dysfunctions” to explain the incidents at the Stade de France during the Champions League final on May 28 .
He notably mentioned “failures”, both “in the execution” and in the “preparation” of the sporting event. “Everyone was in their corridor without there being a real coordination,” also pointed the senator during a press briefing organized to present the senatorial report on this evening of fiasco.
This report recommends about fifteen measures, including those of “imposing operators” to keep the video surveillance images “during the legal period of one month” or to “make the use of offset tickets compulsory”. For Laurent Lafon, if “Ticketing management has been unsuitable”, it “can in no case be considered as the single cause or as the cause of incidents”.
“This failure is the decisions taken by the Paris police headquarters,” said senator François-Noël Buffet (LR), president of the Law Commission.
Senator Michel Savin (LR) denounced in a press release “the attitude of the Minister of the Interior”, Gérald Darmanin, during the hearings which, according to him, “will not have allowed our committee To fully understand what happened “.
” a serious damage to the image of France “
spectators without tickets climbing the stadium grids, others with tickets but unable to enter it, families sprayed with tear gas by police or thefts and attacks committed by opportunistic delinquents … it had to be a showcase a bit More than a year of the Rugby World Cup and before the summer Olympic Games in two years, but the match of May 28 between Real Madrid and Liverpool turned to nightmare.
Among the people interviewed by the senators since 1 er June: managers of sports bodies, representatives of the supporters of Liverpool and the French authorities, including the controversial prefect of Paris police, Didier Lallement, whose departure is announced for July 20, and Gérald Darmanin.
The latter was at the heart of criticism by bringing most of the responsibility of incidents to “30,000 to 40,000 English supporters” who said, against most of the observers on site, s ‘were presented “without tickets or with falsified tickets”. His explanations were also broken by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), which only counted 2,600 false tickets to the turnstiles.
Pressed by criticism, the Minister of the Interior ended up recognizing at the end of June “a part of responsibility” in the failures of the evening and reiterated his “apologies” to the supporters.
Beyond the police management of incidents, the controversy was also nourished by the non-conservation of part of the video surveillance images of the Stade de France, qualified as “serious fault” by Senator François-Noël Buffet.
In parallel with the work of the Senate, the interministerial delegate for the Olympic Games and the major events, Michel Cadot, pinned on June 10, in a first report given to the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, the “failures” of the ‘ Organization and the police response to incidents which, according to him, brought “a serious damage to the image of France”.
Without delay the senators’s verdict, M terminal has already charged the ministers of the interior and sports to “implement without delay” the recommendations of the Cadot report.