sam b. was born on the day of a Barça-Madrid in the times of Dream Team. For him to know that this soccer thing was about resounding emotions, the Barca won in the last shot of the match. It was a good way to debut as a partner. Since then, sam b. has been lucky enough to attend the last four finals of the Champions earned by him Barca. The first of them in Parisin Saint Denis, in 2006. That day he noticed the terrible organization at the entrances to the French stadium. He remembers how one of the many desperate culés who tried to sneak over the fences, got a testicle hooked on the fence and stayed there, like a toothpick in an olive, until the firefighters managed to unhook him a long time later.
Last Saturday, for work reasons, sam b. returned to the same stadium to accompany about fifty guests of a sponsor of the Champions that they were going to see the final between the Liverpool and the real Madrid. Yesterday, the French authorities opened investigations to clarify the facts. The conclusion, which they will never reach, is that the poor organization of the UEFA an authoritarian and incongruous police action was added to it. From chaos to tragedy there was only one step. What happened, tell us in detail Sam B, who was there and stayed without seeing the final.
6:15 p.m. Almost three hours before the game, the coach leaves the hotel located twenty minutes from the stadium. The jam is so monumental that they reach the outskirts of the Stade de France when there are 75 minutes left before the start of the match.
7:45 p.m. Again, slowness and chaos on the access ramp to the stadium. When they glimpse its door, the X, which is where part of the fans of the Liverpool, in the queue you have about 300 people ahead of you. The worst thing is to see that it does not advance, that the time of the game is approaching, that everyone wants to enter and the chaos and nervousness grow. Some fans without a ticket start trying to jump the steep fence. Other ‘supporters’, despite not having a ticket, also swirl in the queue to enter.
8:45 p.m. On the mobile phone, they learn that the UEFA has decided to delay the game for half an hour. The announcement is a small relief for the thousands of fans who are still out. The altercations begin when a group of local youths join the chaos in the crowd. When fans put the electronic ticket on the screen of their mobile, those savvy people capture it on their own phone to get the ticket. Data theft lights the fuse in the queue, already rowdy and on edge. The human avalanche takes dangerous dyes.
9:00 p.m. In such a situation, when someone arrives at access X, they pass. Whether or not you have an entrance, false or true, to the inside. “If it doesn’t work, come in,” they say at the door. Between counterfeit tickets, virtually stolen tickets, and no-tickets, the reader code just couldn’t help it. Seeing that, little by little, they let everyone pass, the pull effect is produced. Bad decision. More young locals and more English without tickets crowd dangerously at the door to enter.
9:20 p.m. The French police arrive and act with shields to get people out of the gate. Immediately afterwards, he launches tear gas indiscriminately that provoke fear among the crowd. People run backwards. Another bad decision. The perimeter is closed by fences and in the stampede there are scenes of panic.
9:30 p.m. The police close that door X and, automatically, all those who were in it go to the next access. Another bad decision. There are added the large number of fans who have to enter through that door, and could not, plus the one that comes bounced from the X. And, again, the chaos multiplied by two.
9:45 p.m. With the match already started, sam b. and the group of guests, many of them minors who were neither of the Liverpool nor of real Madrid, they decide that they are not going to put their integrity and their lives at risk anymore. With the ticket in hand, they desist from going to the final. A good decision. They return to the bus and, from there, to the hotel, to see on the screen what was already predicted to happen.
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