Better late than never. Gérald Darmanin for the first time apologized to Liverpool supporters on Monday after “The failure of the Stade de France“, The final of the Champions League in 2022 supervised in a chaotic way by the police.”We got the wrong device“Police supervision of this meeting, admits in an interview broadcast on the YouTube Legend channel, three years after the final won by Real Madrid (1-0), the one who was then Minister of the Interior.”I apologize to Liverpool supporters“.
“We expected a Hooligan war, and in fact we had people who came to make racketeering. So the addition of bullshit (…) made me, when I do my first public outing, I say what I saw and what I was said to be: ‘The English do the brothel’. (…) It was not true in the literal sense of the term of the term“Explains the Keeper of the Seals.
Initially scheduled in Saint-Petersburg, the final was finally organized on May 28, 2022 in Saint-Denis after the Russian invasion of Ukraine a few months earlier.
The meeting had notably been delayed by 37 minutes, the supporters having difficulty accessing the enclosure after being channels in overloaded bottlenecks. The police had pulled grenades from tear gas towards thousands of English supporters trapped behind metal barriers. The latter had to respond to a series of unjust accusations following this chaos.
“The culprit was easy”
UEFA, the leading European football body, first tried to reject the fault of the supporters who arrived late, while thousands of them had been retained for hours outside the stadium. French authorities had said that one “industrial scale fraud“False tickets was behind the problem. This last accusation, deemed false, was very badly perceived in Britain.
An investigation by the Senate concluded that a poorly designed security device was at the origin of the mess. On which an independent report said that UEFA was carrying the “main responsibility“Failures that almost transformed the match into”fatal disaster“.
“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“Said Gérald Darmanin said on Monday.”It was a failure because I had not planned well, and I sinned by received idea. The culprit was easy“, According to him.
