In an interview with the YouTube channel LegendGérald Darmanin, minister of Justice, admitted having made a communication error on the occasion of the fiasco of the final of the Champions League 2022. At the time, he had the costume of interior minister, accused Liverpool supporters of having been the source of the Disorders around the Stade de France Before the final between the English club and Real Madrid.
“We were mistaken about the” police supervision of this meeting, admits Gérald Darmanin, three years later, explaining that he “expected a war of hooligans and we had people who came to make rackets“.
Originally, the final of the Champions League 2022 was to take place in Saint Petersburg. On May 28, 2022, three months after the start of the war in Ukraine by Russia, the city was removed from the organization of the final. It will be in France, and at the Saint-Denis stadium to finally welcome the prestigious poster. The perfect opportunity for France to show its skills in the organization of a major sporting event, more than a year from the 2023 rugby world cup and two years from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Unfortunately, this General rehearsal was a real fiasco.
In the exchange, published on May 4, Gérald Darmanin regrets having misunderstood this event: “The truth is that in life, there are problems every day. There, there, I may have been a bit pretentiousaccustomed … “. He remembers having taken time to measure the problem when he had found himself completely stopped on the A1 motorway near the Stade de France before the meeting.
“I have sinned by misconceptions”
“I arrive at the stadium in a bizarre atmosphere but when you are Minister of the Interior, you enter through the parking lot, you do not see confusion very well,” he explains. “The prefect of police was not there. I can see that there is a problem, fifteen minutes ago.”. At that time of the evening, the stadium is still not full. The Minister then goes up to the security post where This is the confusion.
“We see on video surveillance images, a red crowd of Liverpool supporters, agglutinated against the gates and CRS that hold them […] I am told that there is a crowd“, He continues. Gérald Darmanin then thinks of English hooliganism : “The analysis that we do at first is ‘they fuck the brothel’.”
-But thereafter, the problem comes rather “guys with False tickets“. They had been sold to supporters and blocked the entrance. Another problem that Gérald Darmanin learned over the evening:” The RER has blocked Part of the people under a tunnel “.” What I don’t know that evening is that most of the difficulty does not come from English supporters but offenders from Seine Saint-Denis who make raids and loot supporters, “he confessed.
“It is a failure because I had not planned well, it is an error on my part, I had not verified well what was going on. I sinned by received ideas. The culprit was easy and I apologize to Liverpool supporters“He finally presents.
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