“Everyone was in their own hallway without there being any real coordination,” said Senator Laurent Lafon, chairman of the culture committee, Wednesday, during a press conference.
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After the incidents that marred the Champions League final at the Stade de France, the Senate points a “chain of malfunctions” and “failures in preparation”Wednesday, July 13. “Everyone was in their lane without there being any real coordination”judged the senator Laurent Lafon, Chairman of the Culture Committee, by presenting the Senate report on the evening of May 28.
“The system put in place was first overwhelmed on a very specific point: the pre-filtering, located in the continuity of the exit of the RER B (…) This failure is therefore due to the decisions taken by the police headquarters”said François-Noël Buffet, chairman of the Senate law commission.
Senate report on the incidents at the Stade de France
“The system put in place was overwhelmed on the pre-filtering (…) This failure is therefore due to the decisions taken by the police headquarters”, declares the president (LR) of the Senate law commission pic.twitter.com/DmiMmWqito
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“Designed to prevent terrorist attacks, the pre-filtering system set up by the police headquarters was combined with ticket validity checks by stewardshe continued. “This created a bottleneck. The space available was reduced to 4 or 5 meters wide by the presence of vehicles intended to obstruct the ramming carshe detailed. “The agreement given to the implementation of a ticket validity check at the pre-screening level, which had only been tried once before and had not given full satisfaction, was immediately inopportune”concluded the senator.