DIRECT. Invalid tickets at the Stade de France: “Whether there are 20,000 or 40,000, it does not change anything”, judges the prefect Lallement in the Senate

“Perhaps I was wrong about the figure of 30 to 40,000”, recognizes the prefect Lallement

“The figure did not have a scientific virtue, but simply the feedback of information which was absolutely essential”, explains the prefect Lallement, who backpedals on the total figure. “Perhaps I was wrong about the figure of 30 to 40,000, but I never claimed that the figure was a perfectly fair few thousand, ”he continues. And to add: “Whether there were 40,000, 30,000 or 20,000, that did not change the fact that there were tens of thousands of people likely to enter the system. Counting them to the nearest 5,000 didn’t matter. »