Fake tickets at the Stade de France: Darmanin’s large accounts – Liberation

ArithmeticArticle reserved for subscribersThe figure of 30,000 to 40,000 English people without tickets or with fakes hammered by the authorities to explain Saturday’s debacle are invalidated by the RATP and observers. But Gérald Darmanin persists in his fallacious communication. Gérald Darmanin, Didier Lallement and the French and European football authorities are in a boat that looks like a hassle: the catastrophic images from the surroundings of the Stade de France this Saturday evening, where the final of the Champions League between Real Madrid and Liverpool, give the impression that the country does not know how to organize this type of event. A bad omen, with the approach of the Rugby World Cup next year and the Paris Olympics in 2024. So the Minister of the Interior, the Paris police prefect, the French Football Federation (FFF ) and the European Union of Football Associations (UEFA), have attached themselves to the mast, and point to culprits elsewhere. Saturday’s berezina is due to British supporters, since between 30,000 and 40,000 came to the Seine-Saint-Denis stadium without tickets, or with fakes, hammer the authorities. Rather than these “unverified claims”, the president of the Liverpool club, Tom Werner, asked the French government for “a real independent and transparent investigation”. The mayor of the English city, Joanne Anderson, for her part …