Remember: on May 28, 2022, Real Madrid won the Champions League by beating Liverpool (1-0) at the Stade de France. A practically anecdotal match with regard to the serious incidents on the sidelines of this poster.
As a reminder, the order to maintain order set up for this event had given rise to chaos scenes in Saint-Denis. Which had caused a lively controversy in France and England. Then Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin had accused English supporters. Three years later, the one who has now been the Keeper of the Seals since the end of 2024 admitted to having lied.
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“At the security post, this is confusion. We see in video surveillance images, a red crowd of Liverpool supporters, agglutinated against the gates and CRS that hold them. The analysis that we do at first is they don't give a damn. What I don't know that evening is that most of the difficulty does not come from English supporters, but offenders from Seine-Saint-Denis who make raids and plunder supporters ”, He confessed during an interview given to the “Legend” YouTube channel.
Darmanin, the mea-culpa
The 42-year-old politician therefore makes his mea-culpa:
“It is a failure because I had not planned well, it is an error on my part, I had not verified what was going on. I have sinned by received idea. The culprit was easy and I apologize to Liverpool supporters. ”
An independent report had completely cleared the supporters of Liverpool, accused initially by UEFA of having arrived late at the stadium. Gérald Darmanin also accused the latter of having massively presented falsified tickets.
