France has “learned lessons” from the 2022 Champions League final assures Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra

The Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra assured, Sunday February 19, that France had “learned all the lessons” incidents at the Stade de France during the 2022 Champions League final. “We will deliver major international sporting events”promised the minister before the 2023 Rugby World Cup and the 2024 Paris Olympics.

“We have shown that we are at work to learn absolutely all the lessons from all of this, on flow management, on the deployment of security forces, the mobilization of private security agencies, crime prevention plans”, said Amélie Oudéa-Castéra in the mixed zone of the Alpine Ski Worlds, which ended on Sunday in Courchevel. Earlier this week, an independent report pointed to the responsibility of UEFA, the FFF and also that of the French security forces in the management of the “disaster” of May 28.

‘Misconception’ linked to Liverpool fans

Endless waiting, supporters and families sprayed with tear gas or victims of robbery… The law enforcement system during this Champions League final had given rise to scenes of chaos in Saint-Denis, provoking a lively controversy in France and England. In question, the position of the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, who had initially incriminated the British supporters with the many falsified tickets according to him, before the prefect of police of Paris at the time Didier Lallement admitted to having “maybe deceived” on their number, recognizing a “failure”.

Experts in the report delivered last Monday, led by the former Portuguese Minister of Education, Youth and Sports, Tiago Brandao Rodrigues, said “stunned” that the policing pattern of the match may have been influenced by the image of Liverpool supporters as hooligans, a “unexplainable misconception”.