The excitement experienced at the end of European Championship at Wembley less than a year ago was repeated this Saturday at the gates of Stade de France. Thefts of fans, jumping fences, aggression and a disturbing lack of security and control led to the delay of the final of Champions League between Liverpool and Real Madrid.
Thousands of fans poured into the field Saint Denis to try to evade security and take advantage of the weak defense of the French, who did not prevent the mob from attacking the gates.
An image very reminiscent of what happened at the European Championship last year, when a hundred fans slipped into disabled tickets at Wembley, in the biggest uproar in the organization that the UEFA.
Broken bottles, glasses, alcohol, drugs and a bottle reminiscent of a fierce battle ruined the final between Italy and England, which ended with 90 detainees, but that didn’t even serve to delay the fight.
This time, the disaster reached even higher heights, with fans waiting more than two hours in line. Saint Deniswith blocks of people on the subway closest to the stadium and with pictures of fans jumping over the fence and attacking security personnel.
A few minutes before the match started, at the scheduled time (9:00 pm local time), there were many holes under Liverpool. The song is remarkable You will not walk alone, that there was not even 50% of the throats that should have accompanied him.
The turmoil also affected teams, who withdrew from the warm-up 20 minutes before 9:00 pm and had to go to the field a second time, to return to pre-match exercises. The hobby of real Madrid respond to delayed announcements on video scoreboards with chants of “out, out.”
In total, they are estimated to have traveled Paris between 50,000 and 60,000 fans Liverpool, most of them had no tickets, because of the 20,000 the English team received, they distributed about 16,000 to their fans. The total capacity of the Stade de France is close to 80,000 seats and the last Champions League final it hosted was in 2006, when Barcelona beat Arsenal 2-1.
Following the Euro final scandal, the security of Wembley This has improved, with several police cordons and a ban on drinking alcohol around the stadium.
Source: La Verdad
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