The policing strategy adopted at the Stade de France on the evening of the Champions League final continues to trigger strong criticism from the opposition on Wednesday 1is June, when the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, and the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castera, must be heard in the Senate at the end of the day.
The chairman of the Senate law commission, François-Noël Buffet (Les Républicains), is waiting “a speech of clarity” et “almost a speech of truth” on the part of the two ministers, in particular on the number of counterfeit banknotes, he declared on Franceinfo. According to Mr. Darmanin, “30,000 to 40,000 English supporters ended up at the Stade de France, either without tickets or with falsified tickets”. For Mr. Buffet, the two ministers must explain “on what basis they are based” to come up with such numbers.
“We could have done better”, conceded Olivia Grégoire, government spokesperson, after the Council of Ministers, Wednesday noon. According to Mme Grégoire, Emmanuel Macron asked the government “transparency, light on the facts, ways to prevent it from happening again and responsiveness”. An expectation that would even be ” an obsession “ for the Head of State, insisted the spokesperson, while calling for “keep a little cool, even if things need to be improved”.
For Marine Le Pen, Mr. Darmanin “should resign”
“The facts are very serious and the minister’s lie is very serious”, considered the candidate of the National Rally for the presidential election, Marine Le Pen, on France 2, this morning. “In any democracy, faced with such a fiasco (…), [Gérald Darmanin] should on his own consider that he must leave”advanced M.me The pen. On Twitter, she wrote explicitly that M. Darmanin “should resign”.
On Europe 1, the president of the group Les Républicains au Sénat, Bruno Retailleau, denounced a “scandalous affair”. “You can be wrong when you react a little quickly, but when you sink into lies, it’s serious”, he lamented. According to the senator, Mr. Darmanin “discards on British scapegoats. These supporters who have been prevented, gassed, robbed”.
“No one believes it”, said Mr. Retailleau about the number of counterfeits advanced. For the latter, in addition to the problem of ticketing, “there were also outbursts of savages, barbarians”. “We failed to maintain order, so we deny the reality”he continued, believing that “when a minister, facing the camera in a television news, lies so brazenly to the French, he damages democracy”. While, for the moment, the commission of inquiry has not yet been set up, Mr. Retailleau has indicated that it could be “if the two ministers do not answer the questions”.
The senator from Vendée also asked the President of the Republic to“intervene in this debate, because it is too serious”highlighting “the image of France in the world”. Socialist Senator Patrick Kanner, former Minister of Sports, went in the same direction on BFM-TV, declaring: “I think that the President of the Republic, who is very silent on the subject, bears part of the responsibility for having imposed on our country the organization of an event which, perhaps, would have been better organized in other other countries of Europe. »
“The government has taken up the matter. We hold the necessary meetings and the reports have been ordered, there will be clarity. I am not a commentator.retorted on this subject Mr. Macron, Tuesday, during a trip to the Cherbourg hospital.