At the heart of the storm since Saturday evening, Gérald Darmanin clings.

The Minister of the Interior has been the target of all criticism since the excesses on the sidelines of the Champions League final at the Stade de France, where several people were able to enter without a ticket.

But it is not only the way of managing the “30,000 to 40,000 English supporters […] either without a ticket or with falsified tickets” which is disputed, despite the image sent back to the international.

The figures put forward by the Beauveau tenant are also called into question.

The chairman of the Senate law commission, François-Noël Buffet (LR), thus said on France Info to expect "a speech of clarity" and "almost a speech of truth" from the minister and Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, who will have to explain "on what basis they are based" to advance the figures mentioned, on the occasion of their hearing in the Senate this Wednesday.

"A minister who lies is bad news and does not bode well for the coming five-year term," accused LFI MEP Manuel Bompard, Jean-Luc Mélenchon's right-hand man, on the same antenna.

"The competent ministers" have the file in hand, sweeps Macron

For Marine Le Pen, "the facts are extremely serious and the minister's lie is extremely serious".

The far-right finalist in the presidential election indicated on Twitter that Gérald Darmanin “should resign” according to her, specifying on France 2 that “in any democracy, faced with such a fiasco (…) he should - even consider that he must leave".

She judged that "he should apologize" too, as requested by the president of the Liverpool club Tom Werner, "since Mr. Darmanin has committed defamation of the supporters", in particular English.

We must not “In addition add a diplomatic crisis”, she lashed out.

Invited by the boss of senators LR Bruno Retailleau to "intervene in this debate, because it is too serious" on Europe 1, President Emmanuel Macron indicated that he was "not a commentator".

“The government has taken up the subject, the competent ministers.

We hold the necessary meetings and the reports have been ordered, clarity will be made, ”he said on Tuesday during a trip to the Cherbourg hospital.

“Gérald Darmanin is a Minister of the Interior who has the complete confidence of the President of the Republic”, insisted the spokesperson of the government, Olivia Grégoire, this Wednesday.

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  • Gerald Darmanin

  • Marine Le Pen

  • Emmanuel Macron

  • Stade de France

  • La France Insoumise (LFI)

  • Senate