The Minister of the Interior, evokes “30,000 to 40,000 supporters either without a ticket or with falsified tickets”. Figures confirmed by UEFA, according to Place Beauvau. False, retorts the European football boss.
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Communication on figures after the Fiasco of the Stade de France runs at cacophony. At the end of a crisis meeting at the Ministry of Sports, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, explained, Monday, May 30, the dysfunctions and other overflows during the final of the Champions League, Saturday, May 28, by The presence of “30,000 to 40,000 Liverpool supporters either without a ticket or with falsified tickets” at the entrance doors of the Dionysian enclosure.
To support his accusations and show the extent of this “massive, industrial and organized fraud of false tickets” coming “on the other side of the English Channel”, Mr. Darmanin relied on “figures confirmed by UEFA “. He also indicated that 70 % of the tickets presented to the stadiums at the pre -filtering were false and counted 2,600 “unorned” tickets at the entrance to the stadium, “even though [their holders] had passed the first filtering” .
Tuesday, May 31, RMC Sport said that the French Football Federation (FFF) and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) had assessed 2,800 the number of “false scanned tickets” at the gates of pregnant. This new figure would have been given by the two organizing bodies of the meeting between Liverpool and Real Madrid at the crisis meeting on Monday.
Except that UEFA says the opposite Tuesday evening. “We have not communicated any figure,” said the corridors of the European body. The discomfort is palpable in Nyon (Switzerland), at the headquarters of UEFA, where the feeling of having served as a deposit for the hasty communication of the French authorities predominates.
launch of an independent survey
Above all, the figure put forward by Mr. Darmanin from 30,000 to 40,000 English supporters without a ticket or provided with falsified tickets creates internal disorder. Several UEFA executives question this figure, considering it too “high”, even “absurd”, and refuse to draw hasty conclusions to “try to cover themselves”.
“We have already known this type of overflows, especially during the Champions League final in Athens, in 2007, with the intrusion into the stadium of Liverpool supporters without tickets that jumped the gates. But we had Only identified several hundred cases, estimates an ex-UEFA framework. The figure advanced today does not hold water. “
Before giving this figure publicly, Gérald Darmanin had relied on the estimates made by the stakeholders gathered around the table on Monday, at the Ministry of Sports: the RATP would have noted an additional frequentation of its network of 40 % in the direction of the Stade de France; “79,000 people have taken urban transport,” said the Minister of the Interior – the RATP has only listed 69,000 (RER B, RER D, line 13 of the metro) -; 16,000 people would have borrowed coaches and “thousands of vehicles” would have gone to the Dionysian enclosure, with a capacity of 80,000 seats
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