Battle of numbers. The French Football Federation and UEFA have assessed the number of “fake tickets scanned” at the Stade de France on Saturday at the Stade de France at “2,800” during the Champions League final, a source familiar with the matter told AFP on Tuesday. confirming information from RMC Sports.
The FFF and UEFA gave this assessment during the meeting Monday at the Ministry of Sports intended to draw lessons from the fiasco of this meeting. But among these 2,800 counterfeit tickets, there may be real tickets that have been incorrectly activated, according to a ticketing specialist interviewed by AFP.
For his part, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin evoked Monday a “massive fraud with counterfeit tickets” and affirmed that “30,000 to 40,000 English supporters found themselves at the Stade de France, either without tickets or with falsified tickets “. Statements widely disputed by specialists or witnesses present in Saint-Denis on Saturday.
The furious English
But to support the thesis of a large influx, Gérald Darmanin puts forward several figures. Those of public transport, used by 79,000 people, including 69,000 via the two RER lines and line 13 of the metro according to figures sent to Parisian. According to the Minister of the Interior, 16,000 people would have come by bus, “plus the very many vehicles which went to the Stade de France”, with a capacity of 80,000 places, of which 22,000 were dedicated to supporters of the Reds , provided with paper tickets which would have been widely reproduced illicitly according to the authorities.
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In the United Kingdom, the assertions of the French authorities have aroused anger, both among Liverpool fans, who claim to have been victims of attacks by local residents and wrongly targeted by the police, and among English football personalities. The two former players Gary Lineker and Jamie Carragher were moved on Twitter by the words of Gérald Darmanin.