Chaos at the Stade de France: the FFF and UEFA estimate at 2,800 “fake tickets scanned” on Saturday – archyde

Battle of numbers. The French Football Federation and UEFA have assessed the number of “fake tickets scanned” at the Stade de France on Saturday at the Stade de France during the Champions League final at “2,800”, a source familiar with the matter told AFP on Tuesday. confirming information from RMC Sports. The FFF and UEFA gave this assessment during the meeting on Monday at the Ministry of Sports intended to draw lessons from the fiasco of this meeting. But among these 2,800 counterfeit tickets, there may be real tickets that have been incorrectly activated, according to a ticket office specialist, interviewed by AFP. and organized” of tickets which would be at the origin of the chaos, evoking 30,000 to 40,000 English supporters at the Stade de France “either without tickets, or with falsified tickets”. Statements widely disputed by specialists or witnesses present in Saint-Denis on Saturday. But the minister was content to give a percentage of “70%” of counterfeit paper notes detected in pre-filtering on the English side, without giving a figure. A figure “to be taken with caution” The 2800 “counterfeit notes scanned”, according to sources familiar with the matter, are a figure “to be taken with caution”, according to Me Barthélémy, lawyer for groups of French supporters and present at the match on Saturday evening. “We had to activate the electronic tickets, and there were breakdowns, computer bugs at the gates which caused some real tickets to be scanned as fake,” he explains. the testimony of Robertson, the Liverpool player, who offered official tickets to relatives. Once at the turnstiles, they were told that these tickets were fake, ”recalled Pierre Barthélémy.VIDEO. “Spectators without tickets disrupted the entrance”: the police denounce the attitude of fans at the Stade de FranceAn investigation has been entrusted to the Paris judicial police into the alleged ticket fraud and UEFA has opened an investigation on its side independent to shed light on Saturday’s incidents. “The investigations (…) will establish the accuracy of the facts, the volumes, traffic or no traffic, the origin of this traffic, and what exactly happened”, said Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castera on the sidelines of a visit to the Paris Olympics organizing committee. “We all need to understand,” she added.