Victor Chabert, edited by Laura Laplaud 07:53, June 01, 2022
After the incidents at the Stade de France on Saturday evening during the Champions League final, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin and Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra will be heard by senators on Wednesday at 5 p.m.
A great opportunity for the right to attack the government.
It's a high-risk audition.
Gérald Darmanin and Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, respectively Minister of the Interior and Minister of Sports, will be heard by the senators on Wednesday afternoon.
The right wants to take advantage of this hearing to hit one of the pillars of the government that they have always had trouble targeting: Gérald Darmanin.
After Saturday night's fiasco in the Champions League final, senators are waiting for answers from these two ministers.
Why was the intelligence note ignored?
In particular, they want to know why the intelligence note, revealed by Europe 1, which alerted to the risks of overflows a few days before the match was ignored.
They also want details on the management of the event, the chain of command, the orders given to the police.
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If these answers are not conclusive, other hearings could take place, according to François-Noel Buffet, president of the Senate law commission.
"We will ask questions and we will question the two ministers so that they answer us clearly. If they do not do it, we will have other people to audition and we will go further, until we arrive. really to know what happened," he said.
Representatives of the French Football Federation, senior police officials, but also members of the Elysée cabinet could thus be summoned.
Emmanuel Macron himself had pushed at the end of February for this Champions League final to take place at the Stade de France.