Fans with fake tickets on the sidelines of Liverpool – Real Madrid? The authorities had been warned of a massive influx of supporters in the capital, two days before the Champions League final and the desire of some of them to enter the stadium this Saturday.
Dated May 25, a note from the National Division for the Fight against Hooliganism (DNLH) written in conjunction with the intelligence services, of which AFP was aware, reported “about 50,000 English supporters present in the capital French (who) will not be ticket holders”,
“Some of them”, it is written in this document widely distributed in the police services, “will be in possession of counterfeit tickets and will try to use them to gain access to the stadium”. The authorities therefore knew that the risk of attempted intrusions at the Stade de France was high.
If the share of holders of counterfeit tickets is not specified, the information was aware of certain strategies aimed at introducing themselves: “Others will try to enter the sports grounds by trickery, for example by using steward uniforms (stewards), UEFA staff, medical staff, cleaners, etc. “, continues the note.
The note insists on the troubles thus generated
Much criticized after the scenes of chaos that occurred around the Stade de France this Saturday evening, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin questioned Monday a “massive, industrial and organized fraud of counterfeit tickets” and reported “30,000 to 40,000 » English supporters present around the enclosure without valid tickets.
A total of 22,000 tickets have been officially allocated to supporters of each of the two finalist clubs. The editors of the note also warned that “several hundred English supporters will try to enter the stadium by forcing the turnstiles and the various access doors” and therefore called for “the greatest vigilance” at the various checkpoints.
“If this 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”, have– they warned. The note also insisted on the incidents which could generate possible attempts of intrusion in the stadium on the part of certain supporters of the “Reds”.
