In the press - Clashes at the Stade de France: "Faced with the French farce, the fans see red"

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In the headlines, the controversy over the Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid, after the incidents on Saturday, near the Stade de France, in Saint-Denis.

"Faced with the French farce, the supporters see red" - red, the color of Liverpool.

Two days later, the British press is not taking off.

The free

accuses "UEFA, the municipality of Saint-Denis, the French police and the State (of having) failed in their duty to protect" and considers the response of UEFA, the police "incredible" and the French Minister of Sports, who invoke "massive counterfeit fraud" to explain these incidents.

"It is frankly ridiculous that anyone working for these institutions thinks they have done their job properly."

"A red rage": the Sport edition of the

, which asks the French authorities not to "blame the British" fans for "the chaos of Paris", cites the reaction of Andrew Robertson.

According to the left-back of Liverpool, the French police would have "panicked", and the attitude of UEFA would be "a shame".

The Spanish dailies prefer to devote their headlines to the joy of the people of Madrid gathered on Sunday in Cibeles Square, to celebrate the victory of Real and its players.

"Madrid once again crowns its goddess Cybele", "the pretty girl", enthuses the sports daily

.

The images of jubilation do not erase the clashes of Saturday evening.

"The incidents that preceded the Champions League Final put France to shame", stings

.

The Catalan newspaper reports the "unsurprising" reaction of the British popular press, "very aggressive towards the French organizers" and evokes the "hangover" of the French, after "the unfortunate images of their overwhelmed police, repressing the supporters of Liverpool with tear gas, truncheons and kicks".

According to the daily, the excuses of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, of the police headquarters and of UEFA, on the "false tickets", "were not convincing".

denounces the fact that "no one takes responsibility for the incidents that delayed the final".

“Saturday night there was an honorable loser, Liverpool and another not so honorable loser,

In France, the controversy took a legal and political turn.

The prefect of Paris has decided to take legal action for a "massive fraud with counterfeit banknotes" and Didier Lallement will also attend the ministerial meeting scheduled for Monday morning to

“identify the dysfunctions” which “enamelled the evening”.

The French press is also extremely critical.

speaks of a worrying "chaos", of "a major failure", as the 2023 Rugby World Cup and the 2024 Paris Olympics are looming. "France, sometimes a little quickly presented as European champion in the organization of sporting events, is the laughingstock of the continent", laments the newspaper.

"Police fiasco":

evokes "the chaotic and violent management of the flow of spectators around the stadium"

,

follows in his footsteps, denouncing "a bankruptcy of the French public authorities", which punctuates, according to him, "long years of repressive and unsuitable, often violent maintenance of order".

"Usually, the official discourse is wary of amalgams, but, since Saturday evening, one could believe that in each Englishman, there is a hooligan who slumbers":

quips and wonders if it is "possible, in our country, to envisage a great popular celebration without it degenerating into confrontations".

For the newspaper, "the causes (of what happened on Saturday evening) (would be) recognized, hackneyed, rehashed": "anarchic immigration", source, according to him, of a "delinquent drift dressed in pride of identity ".

Barely twenty-four hours after the incidents in Saint-Denis, other clashes broke out on Sunday evening in Saint-Étienne, after the victory of AJ Auxerre over the Greens.

After a shot on goal relegating Saint-Étienne to Ligue 2, hundreds of disgruntled supporters entered the field and threw smoke bombs in the direction of the presidential stand and the players.

"The descent by chaos":

recalls that the Saint-Etienne club has been sanctioned several times this season by the Disciplinary Committee of the Professional Football League for the behavior of its supporters.

A word, finally, of the legislative elections next month in France, whose official campaign begins on Monday.

Less than two weeks before the first round,

wonders about the "lack of dynamics" of the presidential camp.

The newspaper sees Emmanuel Macron "under the threat of a ric-rac majority" and judges the first steps of the government of Elisabeth Borne "completely eclipsed by the accusations of rape against one of its members", Damien Abad and since this weekend, by the controversy over the incidents on the sidelines of the Champions League final.

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