The French Interior Ministry said 68 people were arrested and 39 placed in police custody on Saturday night in Paris on the sidelines of the Champions League final due to unrest at the Stade de France stadium in the Paris suburbs. Saint Denis.
In a rare event for a match of this caliber, the start of the final, which Real Madrid beat Liverpool 1-0, was delayed by 36 minutes due to tensions outside the stadium. Many fans tried to climb over the fence gate, trying to get inside by force. The police confronted the intruders and sometimes used tear gas. Some ticket holders were unable to enter the stadium until the end of the first half of the match.
A statement from the Paris police on Saturday evening said that before the match, “many fans without tickets or holders of fake tickets blocked access to the Stade de France at the level of the outer security perimeter.” In a tweet, Home Secretary Gerald Darmannan blamed “thousands of UK fans without tickets or with fake tickets trying to storm” the stadium.
And the European Football Association Vifa announced that the delay of the match was due to “security issues” related to the “late arrival of fans” at the stadium, and it was later revealed that the reason for the crowd at the entrances to the stadium stadium was the result of fake ticket holders expressing ” sympathy”, those affected by these events should urgently discuss these issues with the French police and authorities, as well as with the French Football Federation. The police added that the evacuation of two separate “fan areas” – for Real Madrid fans in Saint-Denis and Liverpool in the east of Paris – took place without major incidents. Police have set up a secure perimeter with giant screens, drinks and entertainment at Coeur de Vincennes to welcome 40 ticketless English fans.
A total of 238 people were detained by various emergency services throughout the day due to “relative emergencies” such as drunkenness or minor accidents, including damage from tear gas, a Paris fire brigade spokesman told AFP.
