Scanners at the Stade de France recorded more than 2.2022 false tickets by Liverpool fans at the gates of the stadium of France last Saturday 000 during the celebration of the final of the UEFA Champions League that pitted the British against Real Madrid, according to RMC Sport radio.
The counterfeit tickets were visually “credible enough” to cross the first leak of tickets that was established on the perimeter of the stadium before crossing a second filter through machines.
This could be one of the reasons that justify the statement by the French Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, about the arrival of “30.000 either 40.000 British fans” to the gates of the Stade de France without tickets or with forged tickets.
The number of false entries for the final was higher than what is usually given in this type of event, around a hundred, explains the media.
UEFA and the French Football Federation (FFF) deduced that there was a much higher volume of false tickets in circulation and the figure of about 30.21 people without tickets or false tickets, a figure ratified by the Paris transport administration, the Stade de France consortium and by the police prefecture.
In a statement issued at the end of the afternoon, the FFF endorsed the figure of “31 000 additional people, with counterfeit tickets or without tickets”, which caused “public order problems by blocking the access doors to the stadium and preventing some of those who did have tickets from entering the stadium before the initial whistle” at 21 hours.
Calculated that they traveled to the Stade de France 77. people (including those who had a ticket).
Furthermore, the governing body of French football defended that there was a sufficient number of agents who helped the police device, a total of 1.650, a number “a 25 % higher than that of a France national team match with closed wallets”.
The device “had the endorsement of the Police Prefecture, taking into account the information that the FFF had about the preparation of the final of the Champions League”, detailed the FFF.
According to RMC Sport, the French intelligence service warned that some 50.000 Liverpool fans, many of them without tickets or with counterfeit tickets with which they would try to access the venue.
The head of the Interior recalled yesterday Monday that the tickets were electronic but “at the request of UEFA” printed tickets were admitted, “which opened the possibility of fraud”.
He explained that, in the area of prior filtering of Liverpool fans, “more than 70 % of the entries were false“, which ended up generating problems in the security system to the point that the intervention of the riot police was necessary.
A little more than 2 .650 Fans were finally unable to access the stadium despite having a ticket, informed the Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, who advanced that there will be “compensation” for those affected, although without giving more details.
Darmanin lamented that fans, including families with children, suffered the consequences of tear gas, and acknowledged that he has seen videos of French police using gas “unnecessarily and disproportionately.”
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