Critics against the government have multiplied since the Champions League final on Saturday. Emmanuel Macron asked, during the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, “transparency, light on the facts”.
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The strategy of maintaining order adopted at the Stade de France on the evening of the Champions League final continues to trigger strong criticism of oppositions, Wednesday 1 er June, while the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, and the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castera, must be interviewed in the Senate at the end of the day.
The president of the Senate Law Commission, François-Noël Buffet (Les Républicains), awaits “a speech of clarity” and “almost a speech of truth” on the part of the two ministers, in particular on the number of False tickets, he said on Franceinfo. According to Mr. Darmanin, “30,000 to 40,000 English supporters met at the Stade de France, either without a ticket or with falsified tickets”. For Mr. Buffet, the two ministers must explain “on what basis they blend” to advance such figures.
“We could surely have done better,” conceded Olivia Grégoire, government spokesperson, after the Council of Ministers on Wednesday noon. According to M Me Grégoire, Emmanuel Macron asked the government “transparency, light on the facts, tracks so that it does not happen again and reactivity”. An expectation that would even be “an obsession” for the head of state, insisted the spokesperson, while calling for “keeping a little composure, even if things are to be improved”.
For Marine Le Pen, Mr. Darmanin “should resign”
“The facts are serious and the lie of the minister is serious,” considered the candidate of the national rally for the presidential election, Marine Le Pen, on France 2, this morning. “In any democracy, faced with such a fiasco (…), [Gérald Darmanin] should consider that he must leave,” advanced M me le pen. On Twitter, she wrote explicitly that Mr. Darmanin ” should resign “.
On Europe 1, the president of the Les Républicains group in the Senate, Bruno Retailleau, denounced a “scandalous affair”. “We can be mistaken when we react a little quickly, but when we sink into lies, it’s serious,” he deplored. According to the senator, Mr. Darmanin “discusses British scapegoats. These supporters who have been prevented, gassed, destroyed”.
“No one believes it,” said Retailleau about the number of false advanced tickets. For the latter, in addition to the problem of the ticket office, “there were also overflows of savages, barbarians”. “We did not know how to maintain order, so we deny reality,” he continued, believing that “when a minister, facing the camera in a television news, as cheeky in the French he abysses democracy “. While, for the moment, the commission of inquiry has not yet been set up, Mr. Retailleau said it could be “if the two ministers do not answer questions”.
The Senator of Vendée also asked the President of the Republic to “intervene in this debate, because it is too serious”, highlighting the image of France in the world “. Socialist senator Patrick Kanner, former Minister of Sports, went in the same direction on BFM-TV, declaring: “I think that the President of the Republic, who is very silent on the subject, carries part of the responsibility in Having imposed on our country the organization of an event which, perhaps, would have been better organized in other countries of Europe. “
“The government has seized the subject. We make the necessary meetings and the reports have been ordered, clarity will be made. I am not a commentator,” said Macron on this subject , Tuesday, on the occasion of a trip to the Cherbourg hospital.