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11:15 “Believe me, it never goes as planned,” insists Didier LallementDidier Lallement is questioned about the preparation of the security system and the criticisms expressed by certain police unions. The prefect returned to the different stages of this work: “The device is prepared by the DOPC, then presented to me with several variants.” Police personnel are then quantified and then a briefing of unit commanders is organised. “There were no remarks”, he assures. “In terms of public order, believe me, it never goes as planned, pleads the Paris police chief. Constantly, we modify the devices. , to know why there was no arrest of a counterfeit ticket holder?” It was difficult to see if there was an offense, justifies Didier Lallement. do.” However, the prefect earlier during his hearing called on English and Spanish supporters who had been able to buy counterfeit tickets to file a complaint. “If they were tricked, which is quite likely given the volume of counterfeit notes, but please let them file a complaint, help us find those responsible for this massive fraud.” 10:55 Didier Lallement ” assumes” the figure of supporters without a ticket The prefect of police explains that the figure of 30 to 40,000 supporters holding counterfeit tickets came from the feedback from transport operators and field police officers who noted a massive arrival of people around the Stade de France. The official ensures that, even inaccurate, it “reflected a situation”, and “assumes” this figure. The figure did not have a scientific virtue but the feedback of information, justifies Didier Lallement. There were far more people than the capacity of the stadium. If these people had put pressure on the dams and the gates we were going to have extreme difficulties.” Moreover for the prefect, the exact number of people who were upstream of the dams would not have had any consequences on the events. which took place in the evening.” Whether there are around the stadium 40,000, 30,000 or 20,000 people, it does not change the fact that there were tens of thousands of people likely to enter the device. In operational terms, it was of no great importance.”10:41″We knew that our fan zone system would not integrate all of the people without tickets”Didier Lallement is questioned about the preparation for securing the event Two last-minute elements were added to this preparation: the RER strike and the note from the National Division for the Fight against Hooliganism which provided for the massive arrival of Liverpool supporters without tickets. Didier Lallement said that the services relied on “past experiences” and “the establishment of barriers for those who leave the RER to arrive by a wider avenue. The prefect of police recognizes that this deviation was put in place place “too late”. Concerning the fans without tickets, the authorities relied on their fan zone system. Even if these spaces could not contain all the fans, the police chief thought that those who did not had been able to access the fan zones “would go to see the match in different bars and cafes”. In addition, the prefect also recognizes that his services had not “considered” the presence of supporters without a ticket by “the presence of counterfeit tickets”. 10:39 Lallement specifies where the counterfeit figure comes from: “Maybe I was wrong”Didier Lallement: “I saw that this figure was debated. It was I who wrote it, I am giving you the figure as we had it at the time of the events. They came to us from the observations of the operators, it’s not me who counts the people in the wagons, but also from the devices we had. We had personnel deployed in transportation. I had both the figures coming from the operators but also the observation of the field officials of the volume elements. The figure had no scientific virtue. But the feedback of crucial information, which is that there were far more people than the capacity of the stadium.” “Perhaps I was wrong in the figure of 30,000 to 40,000 that I gave to the minister. But I never claimed that this figure, at a few thousand, was perfectly correct. But it seems to me to reflect the situation.”10:38 According to Lallement, the presence of counterfeit tickets “had not been considered”Didier Lallement: “The presence of supporters without tickets, we had not, on our side, considered with counterfeit notes. Things hadn’t been thought of that way. To our knowledge, beyond the flows that arrived, there was the presence of supporters on the outskirts of our roadblocks. There was a very large number of people likely to put pressure on the roadblocks. except to load it. I think it would have been a mistake to charge people. The tear gas worked. I am well aware that people of good faith have been gassed, sometimes even families, I’m sorry, but there was no other way.”10:20 Lallement explains why he lifted the roadblocksDidier Lallement “I have decided to lift the dams. They had to be lifted because they were no longer useful. The English are obviously massed in front of the doors. These gates threatened to let go and some were even breached. If thousands of people, of whom I did not necessarily know if they had tickets, had entered the stadium without having a ticket, there would have been no match.” 10:17 Lall: “It was I who gave this figure (the counterfeit banknotes) to the minister”Didier Lallement: “I am the one who gave this figure (30,000 to 40,000 counterfeit banknotes) to the minister, and I take full responsibility for it. The red thread of my whole evening was to save lives.”10:12 Lallement’s “promise” to the victimsDidier Lallement: “I encourage English and Spanish nationals to file a complaint, so that we can prosecute their attackers but also if they never bought fake tickets. I promise them that we will do everything to find the culprits and bring them to justice.” 10:10 Lallement speaks of “failure”: “People have been attacked when we owed them security” not my responsibilities, I try to look as clearly as possible at what happened that evening. It is obviously a failure because people were pushed around or attacked when we owed them security.” “It is also a failure because the image of the country has been shaken”, slice the prefect of police, which evokes “an injury”. “But I must insist, beyond this failure, on the fact that faced with a major crisis, in a degraded and difficult context, we made sure that the match was held and above all that there are no serious injuries or deaths,” he continues. 10:09 Didier Lallement “assumes full responsibility for police management” The Paris police prefect says he is “the only operational person responsible for public order and safety” during the Champions League final. “I therefore assume full responsibility for the police management of the day. of Saturday, May 28, he said. I am in front of you and in front of the country the only operational accountant.” The prefect of police wanted to “greet the police and the gendarmes” who intervened that evening. “Without them a tragedy could have occurred”, pleads the official. 10:05 Start of Didier Lallement’s hearing before the Senate Let’s go for Didier Lallement before the Senate 9:43 Several types of counterfeit tickets identified according to the Stade de France consortium, only 1 out of 4 true BFMTV Info – According to a source close to the investigation at BFMTV, the security manager within the Stade de France consortium was heard as part of this investigation.According to him, there were several types of counterfeit tickets that evening: counterfeit tickets on the phone capture QR code screen shots, fake thermal tickets, copies of tickets on A4 sheets or photos on the phone. He indicated that there were also many non-ticket holders, representing 60% of the supporters present around the Stade de France. checks, security officials quickly realized that only one in four banknotes was true.>> All the info on counterfeit banknotes hereMV9:03Hello everyone!Welcome to our live to follow the hearings in the Senate of the prefect of Paris police, Didier Lallement and the French Football Federation, who was in charge of security on the evening of the Champions League final. The committee will also hear Steve Rotheram, mayor of the metropolis of Liverpool attacked on leaving the Stadium. The purpose of these hearings is to shed light on the incidents at the Stade de France which marred the Champions League final on 28 last May.