a chain of “failures”, according to a first government report

A first government investigation report on the incidents of May 28 at the Stade de France submitted to the Prime Minister on Friday June 10 concludes with a series of “failures” and deplores a police response to the incidents that carried a “serious damage to the image of France”.

In his report, the interministerial delegate to the Olympics and major events, Michel Cadot regrets “highly publicized scenes of operations to restore order (…) which have raised questions from outside observers about our country’s ability to deliver and succeed in the major sporting events of which we will soon have the responsibility”.

Two years before the Olympics, the report recommends the establishment of a national steering body for international sporting events of major interest, on the model of that already in place for the Paris Olympics. “Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne has instructed the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games to take up the recommendations it contains in order to implement them without delay”Matignon said in a statement.

Regarding the reasons for the failure, the 30-page document reviews the preparation, establishes a schedule for the evening, details the “malfunctions” and distributes the responsibilities of each, without overwhelming one or the other of the actors.

evoking a “embolism” and an “break” of the control and security system, the report considers that “the organizers and the police suffered” the crisis situation and point of “execution problems”.

For the interdepartmental delegate, the trigger remains the“poorly controlled influx of excess public without tickets or with counterfeit tickets, in unprecedented proportions”. But he calls “relativize” the first version of the Minister of the Interior who had initially mentioned up to 40,000 English supporters without a valid ticket around the stadium.