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5:44 p.m. : Of the 30,000 to 40,0000 additional supporters without tickets or with fake tickets, the authorities have been asserting for several days, the Minister of the Interior recalls that the French Football Federation also mentions 35,000 additional people at the Stade de France on Saturday evening . The FFF has “found that 110,000 people had visited the Stade de France”, “based on information collected from the various public and private operators”. 75,000 tickets had been issued.
5:41 p.m. : At the pre-filtering after the exit of the RER D, according to private security agents, “more than half” tickets were “fake”, what blocked “several thousands” of British supporters, according to the Interior Ministry. After the pre-screening, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, evokes “2,589 counterfeit banknotes” which were scanned at the access turnstiles, on the side of the English supporters.
5:32 p.m. : What exactly happened on Saturday evening at the Stade de France? Our journalists Pierre Godon and Pauline Lecouvé scrutinized the arguments of the authorities to explain the incidents during the Champions League final.
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5:31 p.m. : Gérald Darmanin assures again that “difficulties and excesses only took place in the British stands” :
5:30 p.m. : The Minister of the Interior ensures that“IThere were plenty of police for this event.” Gérald Darmanin then returns to the sequence of events. He claims that there were “significant pressure exerted by several thousand supporters” on the pre-filtering set up, Saturday, before the Stade de France, between 7 p.m. and 7:45 p.m.
5:25 p.m. : Here is the beginning of the speech of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, on the incidents which took place at the Stade de France on Saturday evening:
5:23 p.m. : “Normally, it’s 18 months to organize such a final. France (…) organized this demonstration in three months. In addition, a RATP strike was announced which massively displaced the supporters (…) of the RER B to RER D.”
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, begins his speech in the Senate.
5:19 p.m. : The leader of the Parisian communist elected officials, Nicolas Bonnet-Oulaldj, put on the jersey of the Liverpool Reds to ask again, before the Council of Paris, the resignation of the prefect of police and the Minister of the Interior after the incidents at the Stadium from France on Saturday.
5:14 p.m. : Remember that Emmanuel Macron claimed “transparency, light on the facts, ways to prevent it from happening again and responsiveness” after the incidents around the Stade du France on Saturday, government spokeswoman Olivia Grégoire said.
5:10 p.m. : The hearing of ministers Gérald Darmanin and Amélie Oudéa-Castéra begins in the Senate. You can follow her live.
4:47 p.m. : Preparation for the hearing of Darmanin & Oudéa-Castéra in the Senate after the fiasco of the organization of the Champions League final at the Stade de France #SaintDenis From the memory of a bailiff: “you are 48 accredited journalists, we hadn’t seen so much here since Benalla”
4:51 p.m. : LCI reporter Paul Larrouturou, who will cover the hearing of ministers in the Senate, evokes on Twitter 48 journalists accredited to the upper house of Parliament. “We hadn’t seen so many here since Benalla”told him a bailiff.
4:44 p.m. : The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, and the Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra will be heard from 5 p.m. in the Senate, in order to answer questions from senators on the incidents which took place around the Stade de France in the Champions League final on Saturday. You can follow their hearing in our live.
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