How to explain the Stade de France fiasco?
After the two ministers Gérald Darmanin and Amélie Oudéa-Castéra a week ago, the senators continued their hearings all day on Thursday around the incidents on the sidelines of the Champions League final, with the prefect of police Didier on the program. Lallement, the French Football Federation and the mayor of the metropolis of Liverpool.
Summary of these sometimes surprising hours of questions and answers.
30,000 to 40,000 people without a real ticket?
The prefect of police "may have been wrong"
He was the first person to mention this fork, the day after the match.
Ten days after having himself put forward the figure of "30,000 to 40,000 people" without tickets or with false arrivals around the Stade de France, Didier Lallement admitted that he had no "scientific virtue" and that he was “perhaps mistaken” about the extent of the phenomenon.
“The 30 to 40,000, we smelled them on the outskirts of our dams”, continued the prefect of police, explaining that this figure was an estimate linked “to transport operators”.
This figure has since been taken up by the government and repeated several times by the tenant of Place Beauvau, Gérald Darmanin.
"It's ridiculous to say there were such a large number of people," tackled the mayor of the metropolis of Liverpool, Steve Rotheram.
If he also recognized a “failure” of this day, Didier Lallement defended the use of tear gas by the police “the only means we have to push back a crowd, except to charge it”.
The FFF claims that the Stade de France videos have been deleted
The assertion was dropped suddenly, in the course of a question posed by a senator to Erwan Le Prévost, director of institutional relations of the French Football Federation, on the existence of videos showing the unfolding of events around the enclosure. of Saint Denis.
“The images are available for seven days.
They are then automatically destroyed.
We should have had a requisition to provide them to the different populations”, slipped the leader of the FFF, who spoke of the “extremely violent” recorded scenes.
Video surveillance at the Stade de France: “The images are available for seven days.
They are automatically destroyed.
We should have had a requisition to provide them to the different populations.
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"What has just been said is very important, even serious," was indignant Senator David Assouline.
"It was up to the public prosecutor to request the requisition of these images", explained the president of the law commission, François-Noël Buffet.
The FFF charges the RATP
Whose fault is it ?
For the FFF, one of the culprits of the chaos around the enclosure on the evening of the match is the RATP.
"If some people make decisions without referring to the other parties, it doesn't work," said Erwan Le Prévost.
We did not have the information that the flow of the RER B was going to be transferred to the RER D. "It is through this access to the stadium, narrow, that a mass of supporters formed who suffocated the device of pre-filtering.
Contacted, the RATP denied these assertions, explaining that "the whole system (in particular communication on the lines to be taken by the different categories of supporters) had been shared with the Prefecture of Police and the French Football Federation during meetings held under the aegis of the FFF”.
