The National Directorate for the Fight against Hooliganism (DNLH) of the national police had warned on Wednesday May 25 of the risks of counterfeit tickets in the possession of football supporters on the occasion of the Champions League final on Saturday May 28 in Stade de France between Liverpool and Real Madrid, learned franceinfo from a pocket source, confirming information from Europe 1.
>> Follow the latest on the incidents in the Champions League final in our live
“If the meeting does not present any particular risks in connection with violent supporterism, disturbances to public order are to be feared, in particular due to the very large influx of supporters from all over Europe”, said the DNLH. The police pointed out that “some British supporters” would have “inclinations to enter the stadium without being in possession of tickets”The one that does not “will not fail to generate incidents”.
In its forecast note, the police envisaged the presence in Paris of “50,000 to 75,000 English supporters”of which only 50 to 100 “risk supporters”. The DNLH believed that“around 50,000 English fans in the French capital will not be ticket holders.Some of them will be in possession of counterfeit tickets and will attempt to use them to enter the stadium.” She warned that these people “will try to sneak into the sports arena”using for example uniforms of stewards, UEFA staff, medical staff, cleaners.
Referring to previous finals played by the Liverpool club, the DNLH believed that “several hundred English supporters will try to enter the stadium by forcing the turnstiles and the various access doors”. She thus alerted to the “very careful” to have on the “different checkpoints to stem these attempts”and this despite the setting up from 12 p.m. “of the exclusion perimeter widens around the sports enclosure”.
In addition, the DNLH judged that on the side of Real Madrid, “the vast majority of supporters who will travel to Paris will be in possession of a stadium access ticket. The risk of attempted fraudulent entry is therefore low”. And according to her, “in general, supporters of the Spanish club are not known to be the cause of public disorder”.
Finally, the note pointed out that “the Parisian risk supporters for their part do not intend to mobilize around this meeting”. But the DNLH planned “however some individual actions” who “could be carried out to the detriment of British or Spanish supporters, with the aim of stealing articles bearing the effigy of clubs in order to be able to mark their territory, in particular through social networks”.