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Stade de France fiasco: Liverpool fans hail 'clear message' but want government apology

2022-07-13T13:44:33.089Z


Fans of the English club, happy with the Senate's report into the Stade de France incidents, are demanding an apology from the French government.


One of Liverpool's main supporters' associations on Wednesday welcomed the report by French senators exonerating English fans of being behind the incidents during the Champions League final at the end of May at the Stade de France, while demanding “

apologies

” to the French government.

"

The Senate sent this Wednesday a clear message of support to the supporters who attended this match by speaking of a fiasco and declaring that they were not the cause of the problems of the Stade de France

", indicates the association Spirit of Shankly in a statement.

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We want to thank the senators for taking into account the testimonies of the supporters and for having exonerated them of any responsibility, but there is always the question of the lies which are repeated in a constant way

”, regrets this group of supporters of the Reds.

We want the French government to apologize and fully retract the lies that have been spread since May 28, 2022 and we will continue to press for this

,” the text continues.

During the presentation of a report on the fiasco of the Champions League final, senators Laurent Lafon and François-Noël Buffet pointed to the "

failures

" of the authorities, attributable according to them to the Paris police headquarters, while by denouncing a bad "

analysis

" of the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin.

"

It's not because there were Liverpool supporters who accompanied their team that it went badly

," said Laurent Lafon, chairman of the culture committee, during a press briefing.

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On the evening of the match won by Real Madrid against Liverpool (1-0), Gérald Darmanin had quickly incriminated Liverpool supporters, before apologizing late.

He said during his hearing before the senators that nearly “

35,000

” supporters with counterfeit tickets or without tickets had shown up that evening at the Stade de France.

Source: lefigaro

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