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France blames Liverpool & ticket fraud for Champions League crowd trouble


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  • Saturday's match was delayed due to crowd trouble
  • French minister: Liverpool fans caused initial problems
  • French minister: local youths also tried to force way in
  • Some supporters, including children, were tear-gassed

 

PARIS, May 30 (Reuters) - The French government on Monday blamed massive ticket fraud and Liverpool's handling of its fans for the crowd trouble which marred the club's Champions League soccer final against Real Madrid in Paris over the weekend.

 

But as a blame-game over the fiasco continued into Monday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson described the scenes outside the national stadium, which saw some fans including children teargassed by French police, as deeply upsetting.

 

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Liverpool had provided its supporters with paper tickets, and not electronic, which allowed for the possibility of what he described as a "massive fraud on an industrial scale".

 

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https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/liverpool-fans-caused-initial-problems-champions-league-final-says-french-2022-05-30/

 

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I think everybody messed it up: the British with fake tickets (apparently 70% of tickets were fake) who tried to climb over and also de facto blocked people with real tickets from entering, the organisers who did not organise well, and the police who got overtaken by events.

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Probably a mix of factors- it was easy to see on social media that many Liverpool fans did go to Paris without tickets- not necessarily a bad thing.

One thing we can be sure of that there will be a chorus of Liverpudlian and Irish voices claiming it was not their fault...

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