Real Madrid vs Liverpool: the Champions League final now faces the governments of France and the United Kingdom

The delay and the incidents prior to the Champions League final between Real Madrid and Liverpool bring a tail. On the one hand, authorities of the United Kingdom They ask their French peers to investigate the mistreatment of fans who traveled to Paris to see the match; of the other, France points to an alleged massive ticket fraud at the hands of the English.

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Gérald Darmanin, French Minister of the Interiormaintained that “the massive presence of these counterfeit banknotes” was what caused the “postponement of the start of the match”. According to information from “El País”, Darmanin argued before the authorities of the UEFA that on Saturday the 28th attended “between 30,000 and 40,000 Liverpool fans without a ticket or with counterfeit tickets”.

The origin of the fraud, maintained the minister, would originate in “the other shore of the Channel”, that is, in the United Kingdom.

The Spanish media shares the declarations of the minister, who maintained that the false tickets generated agglutination at the doors and that, to avoid problems, the organization decided “lift the controls”. The play went wrong for them because “dozens of young people from the neighborhood took the opportunity to sneak in and tried to jump the fences of the stadium”, but were repelled by the tear gas released by the police. In total, 77 people were arrested.

“We had prepared a lot before the ‘hooliganism’. But we were less prepared for a crime that took advantage of the chaos in the previous controlsDarmanin concluded.

Taking advantage of the case, the former candidate for the French presidency, Marine LePenasked that the “Parliament investigates and said that the country can no longer organize major sporting events without degenerating into chaos”.

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history repeats itself

The use of tear gas ended up affecting children and other attendees at the Princes Park that had nothing to do with the incident. Hence the very British Prime Minister Boris Johnsonhave put the cry in the sky.

“We know that many fans of the Liverpool traveled to Paris in time to support their team in one of the biggest games of the season and we are very disappointed in how they were treated”, he declared.

In this regard, “El País” notes that “most Britons are well aware of the less than exemplary behavior their hooligans have traditionally exhibited”. there’s the final of the European Championship in July 2021: on the outskirts of wembley stadium They succeeded “serious clashes between the police and the hundreds of fans who jumped the entrance barriers to watch the final between the England and Italy teams”.

But one should not jump to conclusions so hastily. It is also true that security in French stadiums is not optimal.

This Sunday 29 the historic Saint-Etienne lost the category after facing the auxerrea game that ended “with the invasion of the field and the launching of flares”.

Source: Elcomercio

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