More than 100 arrests took place on Saturday evening on the sidelines of the Champions League final at the Stade de France between Liverpool and Real Madrid.
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Fifteen people were still in police custody late Monday, May 30, franceinfo learned from the Bobigny prosecutor’s office, two days after the incidents that occurred before the Champions League final at the Stade de France, in Saint-Denis ( Seine-Saint-Denis). There is no foreign supporter among these detainees, specifies the prosecution.
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On Sunday, the Paris police headquarters reported 105 arrests after the jostling and crowd movements that occurred at the entrance to the Stade de France, delaying kick-off by 36 minutes. Several people climbed the gates and tried to enter the stadium. The police had to intervene and use tear gas to disperse the crowd.
As of Saturday evening, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, had spoken of “thousands of British supporters without tickets or with fake tickets who forced entry”. On Monday, a meeting was organized by the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castera, to take stock of the dysfunctions with the sports organizers, the consortium of the Stade de France and the prefect of police of Paris, Didier Lallement, who represents Gérald Darmanin.