Incidents of Stade de France: “serious damage to image of France”, according to a government report

Two years from the Olympic Games, he recommends the implementation of a national piloting body for international sporting events of major interest.

Le Monde with AFP

The day after the hearing of the Paris police prefect, Didier Lallement, before the Senate to explain the incidents at the Stade de France on May 28, a first government investigation report was submitted on Friday 10 June, at the Prime Minister.

In his report, the interministerial delegate for the Olympic Games (OJ) and major events, Michel Cadot regrets “very publicized scenes of ordering of the order (…) which have aroused questions from ‘External observers on the ability of our country to deliver and succeed in major sporting events of which we will soon be responsible.

Two years from the Olympic Games, the report recommends the implementation of a national piloting body for international sporting events of major interest, on the model of that already in place for the Paris Olympics.

“Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, instructed the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Sports and Olympic and Paralympic Games to seize the recommendations he contains to implement them without delay,” wrote Matignon in a press release.

“put into perspective” the figure of supporters without tickets

Regarding the reasons for the failure, the thirty -page document returns to the preparation, establishes a course of the evening, details the “dysfunctions” and distributes the responsibilities of each, without overwhelming one or the other of the actors.

Evoking a “embolism” and a “rupture” of the control and security system, the report judges that “the organizers and the police have undergone” the crisis situation and points to “execution problems”.

For the inter -ministerial delegate, the trigger remains the “poorly controlled influx of the excess audience without tickets or with false tickets, in unpublished proportions”.

But he calls to “put into perspective” the first version of the Minister of the Interior, who had first mentioned up to 40,000 English supporters without a valid ticket near the stadium. Thursday, the Paris police prefect Didier Lallement had also nuanced this figure without “scientific virtue” and had admitted to having “perhaps deceived” on this subject.

/Media reports.