Two Liverpool fans committed suicide following the events of the Champions League final

Report: The two, survivors of the Hillsborough disaster aged 63 and 52, could not bear the pain that resurfaced and ended their lives: "a trauma they thought they had overcome"

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09/28/2022

Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 06:40

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A particularly sad and difficult story was revealed in England: two Liverpool fans, who arrived in Paris and had to endure the difficult events at the Stade de France before the last Champions League final against Real Madrid, ended their lives.

As you may recall, the last Champions League final opened with an unprecedented delay of 36 minutes due to riots outside the stadium, caused mainly by security failures and accusations by Liverpool fans that thousands of them hold fake tickets - a claim that the French have so far been unable to confirm.

In a puzzling decision following the same accusations, the gates were closed and the fans' entry was stopped for a long time, so that an indescribable rush was created to enter the stands and the situation got worse and worse with physical violence and the use of tear gas by the security forces against fans who had tickets in their hands and wanted to cross the long line safely to enter the stadium.

Thousands of fans, after hours of standing in line according to the evidence, entered only at the end of the first half, when Liverpool players, such as Joel Matip and Andy Robertson, said that their family members and friends - who of course had original tickets they had received from them - had to escape from the security forces who sprayed them with tear gas and found refuge in a nearby restaurant.

Queues that lasted for hours, during which tear gas was used.

Liverpool fans in Paris (Photo: GettyImages, THOMAS COEX/AFP)

Liverpool fans outside the stadium in Paris before the Champions League final, after police fired tear gas (Photo: Reuters)

The two fans who committed suicide, aged 63 and 52, have in common that they were never able to overcome the tragedy of the Hillsborough disaster, in which 96 fans of the team were crushed to death in 1989.

The hypothesis is that the events in Paris reminded them of the disaster and, as written in the "Liverpool Echo", both could no longer bear the difficult and painful images from Hillsborough that they watched and re-engraved in their heads following the Paris events.

"At the moment it is not possible to provide too many details, these suicides are under investigation, but there is no doubt that they did an irreversible act as a result of the events of the Champions League final in Paris - the trauma of 1989 resurfaced after they thought they had overcome it," said the president of the Hillsborough disaster survivors organization.

He also said that 11 other fans are in serious mental distress.

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