The Champions League final match in Paris, between Real Madrid and Liverpool, left a balance of 68 people arrested, of which 39 were imprisoned. This was confirmed this Sunday by sources from the police prefecture to EFE.
During the night, after one in the morning, the police also clarified that the firefighters intervened to attend to 238 people who had minor injuries, none of whom had to be hospitalized.
Depending on the broadcaster France Info , one of the detainees was wearing 50 fake tickets on top. Many spectators with tickets, in fact, could not enter until the first half had already started.
The match in which Real Madrid won (1-0) against Liverpool was held in a context of police tension with the delay of 35 minutes from its start due to retentions at the entrance of the stadium and the attempt of thousands of others to sneak in.
Finally, the authorities managed to disperse those who were near the stadium, even using tear gas in some cases , on a night in which France was marked by organizational problems, one year away from hosting the Rugby World Cup and two from the Olympic Games.
The French press has blamed the problems of organization to the scarcity of time that Paris has had to organize the meeting, which until three months ago was scheduled to be held in Saint Petersburg but was transferred to France by the invaders ion of Russia in Ukraine.
Chaos in Saint Denis
In a statement, the police clarified that numerous fans without tickets or with false tickets disturbed access to the stadium, where the external security perimeter.
Exerting strong pressure to penetrate the enclosure, the fans delayed the ticketed spectator access. Taking advantage of this situation, a certain number of people managed to get through the gates that protect the stadium”.
The dispersal of the areas dedicated to fans, one in Saint Denis, which hosted to 4, 000 madridistas and another in the east of Paris with some 30,000 British, was carried out without incident.
Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior, pointed directly to the British fans of this problem. He accused them of trying to force entry, including violently.