Two Liverpool fans committed suicide after the Champions League final riots. They had survived the Hillsborough massacre

Due tifosi del Liverpoolwho were involved in the incidents caused by the disorganization of UEFA and the French police in Paris before the Champions League final between the Reds and the Real Madrid, they committed suicide. He writes it The team. The two were also present at the stadio Hillsborough of Sheffield on April 15, 1989 for the Fa Cup semifinal between Liverpool and Nottingham Forrest, when 96 Reds fans (including children) died crushed by the crowd. The biggest massacre in the history of English football. A double trauma, relived by the two fans in Paris a few months ago, with similar scenes: bottled fans who were prevented from entering the stadium, herded by the police at the risk of suffocating and crushing. According to the British Daily Mailon the other hand, the two fans would have seen the incidents in Paris only from TV.

“The trauma of 1989 was reactivated in them”

The team cite as source Peter Scarfe, president of the Hillsborough Survivor Support Association: “I can’t give too many details about these suicides, because the investigation is ongoing. I can say that one took place about a week after the Saint-Denis final and the other, The victims were 52 and 63 years old and there is no doubt that if they committed this irreparable act, it is because the last Champions League final reactivated in them the trauma of 1989, which they thought they had overcome. The memory of 1989 has come back to haunt them because the events at the Stade de France have many things in common with those in Hillsborough. other under a tunnel, blocked turnstiles preventing entry into the stadium and above all false accusations. The French government, just like the English police did in 1989, accused Liverpool fans of being responsible for the d isordini “.