(Paris) The French Football Federation and UEFA have assessed the number of “counterfeit tickets scanned” at the Stade de France on Saturday at the Stade de France at “2,800” for the Champions League final, sources told AFP on Tuesday. close to the file confirming information from RMC Sports.
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The FFF and UEFA gave this assessment during the meeting Monday at the Ministry of Sports intended to draw lessons from the fiasco of this meeting. But among these 2,800 counterfeit notes, there may be real notes that have been incorrectly activated, according to lawyer Pierre Barthélémy, interviewed by AFP.
On Monday, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin spoke of a “massive, industrial and organized” ticket fraud that would be the cause of the chaos, citing 30,000 to 40,000 English supporters at the Stade de France “either without a ticket or with counterfeit tickets. But the minister was content to give a percentage of “70%” of counterfeit paper notes detected during pre-filtering on the English side, without giving a figure.
The 2,800 “counterfeit notes scanned”, according to sources familiar with the matter, are a figure “to be taken with caution”, according to Me Barthélémy, lawyer for groups of French supporters and present at the match on Saturday evening.
“E-tickets had to be activated, and there were breakdowns, computer bugs at the gates which caused some real tickets to be scanned as fake,” he explains.
“I want as proof the testimony of Robertson, the Liverpool player, who offered official tickets to relatives. Once at the turnstiles, they were told that these tickets were fake, ”recalled Pierre Barthélémy.
An investigation has been entrusted to the Paris judicial police into the alleged ticket fraud and UEFA has launched an independent investigation to shed light on Saturday’s incidents.
” The surveys […] will establish the accuracy of the facts, the volumes, traffic or no traffic, the origin of this traffic, and what happened exactly, “said Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castera on the sidelines of a visit to the Paris Olympics organizing committee. “We all need to understand,” she added.