Chaos at the Stade de France: the Senate charges Didier Lallement for a decision at the origin of the incidents – RMC Sport

Present at a press conference to deliver the first conclusions of the investigation into the incidents of the Champions League final, the chairman of the Senate law commission, François-Noël Buffet, deplored the strategy of the police prefect of Paris, Didier Lallement. Accounting time. Nearly three weeks after the incidents at the Stade de France during the Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid (1-0), a senatorial delegation traveled to Saint-Denis on Thursday to present to the media its first conclusions on this tense file. After the scenes of chaos on May 28, the presidents of the Culture and Laws Committees of the Senate, Laurent Lafon (centrist) and François-Noël Buffet (LR), launched a series of hearings from June 1, at start with that of the Ministers of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, and of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra. This Thursday morning, it is the interministerial delegate to the Olympic Games and major sporting events, Michel Cadot, who was heard.>> All the information on the first conclusions of the senatorsAnd in the afternoon, Laurent Lafon and François-Noël Buffet held a press conference, beginning by apologizing to the supporters “especially for the English people who came, for whom this trip was supposed to be a moment of celebration but was not”. They then pointed to numerous malfunctions, “of rare gravity”. “The organization of this event was at the origin of the serious incidents which took place at the Stade de France. Firstly, the orientation of the spectators. On May 23, a meeting was held in the prefecture in the presence in particular of the FFF, which had proposed a staking from the RER D station, to direct the flow of supporters in two flows, towards the RER D and the RER B. The prefect asked for it to be removed. the most important dysfunction”, pointed out François-Noël Buffet.”A choice that we cannot consider to be a good choice”Before deploring the strategy of the Paris police chief, Didier Lallement, who also was heard by the Senate on June 9. “The question arises of the problem of employment of the police who were present on the site, underlined the senator from the Rhône. The prefect of police clearly said that his doctrinal choice was first of all the management of the volume supporters, and not the management of public security and therefore crime on the site. We know precisely that since the beginning of the afternoon, or even noon, a certain number of people have been involved in acts of crime around of the stadium. It continued until the end. They even came to the filtering areas to pick pockets for various supporters without there being an appropriate police reaction adapted to this type of delinquency. “And François -Noël Buffet to insist: “It is a choice which was assumed by the prefect of police but it is incontestably a choice which one cannot consider as being a good choice in view of the 400 or 500 people who are engaged in this type of behavior. This figure comes from the reports arations that were made by the various people interviewed. In terms of security, the aspect of crime management has nevertheless been put under the carpet when since the beginning of the afternoon it was known that the first acts of attempts to enter the stadium have been committed. During his hearing, Didier Lallement admitted that the police management around the match was “obviously a failure” and that “the image of the country” had been shaken. While assuming his choices, in particular on the use of tear gas.