The first report of the government investigation into the incidents of the Champions League finals on May 28 at the Stade de France submitted to French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Friday concluded that a series of “failures” and regretted the police response to the incident that caused “serious.” damage to the image of France “.
In his report, the interterministerial delegate for the Olympic Games and major events, Michel Cadot, regrets highly publicized scenes of operations to restore order[(…] which raised questions from outside observers about our country’s ability to deliver and succeed at major sporting events for which we will soon be responsible.
Two years from the Paris Summer Games in the summer of 2024, the report recommends the establishment of a national steering body for international sporting events of great interest, on the model of one already in place for OJ.
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne instructed the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games to take up the recommendations contained therein so that they can be implemented without delay.said Matignon in a press release.
Regarding the causes of failure, the 30-page document reviews the preparation, establishes the schedule for the evening, details malfunctions and shared the responsibilities of each, without exaggerating one or the other of the actors.
arouse a embolism and the blow up of the control and security system, the report considers that the organizers and police suffered the crisis situation and point of runtime issues.
For the interdepartmental delegate, the trigger remainspoorly controlled influx of excessive public without tickets or with fake tickets, on unprecedented scale.
But he calls relativize the first version by the Minister of the Interior who first mentioned up to 40,000 English supporters without valid tickets around the stadium for the match that Real Madrid won 1-0 against Liverpool.
On a more positive note, Mr. Cadot recalled that 97% of the spectators attended the match as the fan zones placed outside the enclosure did not cause any problem of disturbance in the public order.
France Media Agency
Source: Radio-Canada
