The two senators Laurent Lafon (centrist union) and François-Noël Buffet (LR), who presented the conclusions of an information report on the security fiasco of the evening of May 28, exonerated the English supporters of Liverpool from be at the origin of incidents during a press briefing.
"It's not because there were Liverpool supporters who accompanied their team that it went badly", assured Laurent Lafon, the president of the culture committee during a press briefing.
"Imprecise" analysis
A few days earlier, he had described as "root evil" this massive presence, according to him, of counterfeit notes.
The president of the culture committee considered that this "analysis" of the Minister of the Interior after the incidents, placing the responsibility on the presence of counterfeit banknotes, "was not the right one".
"It was a partial and imprecise analysis," he added.
"The first statements did not correspond to the truth", also denounced François-Noël Buffet (LR).
Senator (LR) Michel Savin denounced in a statement "the attitude of the Minister of the Interior", during the hearings, which "will not have allowed our commission to fully understand what happened."
"This failure is due to the decisions taken by the Paris police headquarters", underlined François-Noël Buffet (LR), the president of the Law Commission during this press point.
Laurent Lafon also mentioned "a series of malfunctions" and "failures" both "in the execution" and in the "preparation" of the event.
"Everyone was in their own lane without there being any real coordination," also noted the senator.
This report recommends around fifteen measures, including that of "requiring operators" to keep video surveillance images "for the legal period of one month" or even "making the use of tamper-proof tickets compulsory".
For Laurent Lafon, if "the management of the ticket office has been inadequate", it "can in no way be considered as the sole cause or as the cause of the incidents".
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