Elected officials delivered their first conclusions on Thursday, on Thursday, May 28, on the sidelines of the Champions League final. They point to many “dysfunctions” “whose consequences could have been dramatic”.
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Senators continue their marathon in the search for responsibilities after the incidents that have occurred on Saturday May 28 at the Stade de France (Seine-Saint-Denis) on the sidelines of the Football Champions League between Real Madrid and the Liverpool fc.
After the hearing, Thursday, June 16, in the morning, of Michel Cadot – the interministerial delegate for major sporting events and the Olympic Games (OJ) -, a delegation of elected officials led by the President of the Laurent Culture Commission Lafon (Centrist, Val-de-Marne) and that of the Law Commission François-Noël Buffet (Les Républicains, Rhône) went to the PC Security of the Stade de France then to the forecourt of Denis where chaos scenes broke out on May 28.
At the end of their visit, the senators delivered “the first lessons” learned from more than two weeks of hearings – in particular those of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, of the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa -Castéra, the 1 er June, and the prefect of police, Didier Lallement, June 9.
“The dysfunctions are numerous, the facts of May 28 are of a rare gravity whose consequences could have been dramatic”, cracked Laurent Lafon in the preamble, describing, on the part of the organizers, “an upstream impparation, A lack of responsiveness during the event “and” a criticizable management after “.
lack of police reaction
Senators say they have supported their work on the report submitted on Friday June 10 to the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, by Michel Cadot, charged by Amélie Oudéa-Castera to shed light on the incidents of May 28. “Some dysfunctions have been noted by Mr. Cadot, others not at all.”
In the document, the interministerial delegate for major sporting events and the Olympic Games established, without determining a culprit, the list of responsibilities of each of the organizers – French Football Federation (FFF), Paris, RATP and SNCF police prefecture – in the dysfunctions observed.
Three of them caught the attention of the elected officials of the High Assembly: the poor orientation of the flows of supporters, the faulty management of delinquency around the Stade de France and the non-conducting of video surveillance images the sports enclosure.
Senators have particularly criticized the withdrawal, by the prefect of police, of the signage indicating, at the exit of the RER D, a load shedding route to the RER B, more suitable for going to the stadium. Why was he not resettled? Didier Lallement did not explain it during his hearing at the Palais du Luxembourg; The system would not have proven itself during the final of the French Cup three weeks earlier.
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