Four days after the organizational fiasco of the Champions League final at the Stade de France, Marine Le Pen has only harsh words for Gérald Darmanin. This Wednesday on the antenna of France 2, the former president of the RN denounced a “very serious lie” of the Minister of the Interior on the thousands of counterfeit notes at the origin according to him of the incidents of Saturday and estimated that he “should of himself consider that he must go”.
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“The facts are extremely serious and the lie of the minister is extremely serious”, accused on France 2 the finalist of the last presidential election. “For a minister to come on television to lie, as he did, it is very serious because there is neither neutrality nor truth nor probity in his remarks,” she said indignantly. “In any democracy, faced with such a fiasco, faced with a chaos that unfolded in front of 400 million television viewers and which gives France a deplorable image, it should of itself consider that it must leave “, she added.
“Anarchic immigration” and “out of control delinquency”
She also felt that, as requested by Liverpool club president Tom Werner, the minister should apologize. “Since Gérald Darmanin has committed defamation of supporters in general and English supporters in particular, yes, of course, if we do not want to add a diplomatic crisis in addition, he should apologize”, a- she explained.
On the merits, according to her, “France has given the spectacle of what it is becoming, that is to say an area of general lawlessness and this, under the pressure of anarchic immigration and delinquency that is out of control”.
The Ministers of the Interior and Sport heard in the Senate
According to Gérald Darmanin, “30,000 to 40,000 English supporters found themselves at the Stade de France, either without a ticket or with falsified tickets”. For the time being, the French Football Federation and UEFA have estimated the number of “fake tickets scanned” at “2,800” on Saturday, according to sources familiar with the matter, confirming information from RMC Sports.
Wednesday at 5 p.m., Gérald Darmanin and the Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra are expected for a hearing in the Senate on these questions. “What we are waiting for is a speech of clarity and I was almost going to say a speech of truth”, warned on Franceinfo the president of the Senate law commission, François-Noël Buffet (LR).
On the number of counterfeit notes, “we must know where the truth is, the two ministers must say on what basis they are basing themselves,” he added. “If this massive fraud is indeed existing and real, there is a real subject, but if it is not the truth, there is another subject which is that of public speech and in particular the true apprehension of ministers in charge of this file”, he noted.