After the chaos surrounding the Champions League final in Paris, France's Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra sees the responsibility primarily with British football fans.

30,000 to 40,000 had crowded the Stade de France without a ticket or with counterfeit tickets and had caused massive security problems there, the minister told RTL in Paris on Monday.

It still needs to be clarified where the counterfeit tickets came from in such large numbers.

The minister also accused Liverpool FC of not taking good care of their fans like Real Madrid and leaving them to their own devices.

Oudéa-Castéra regrets the use of tear gas

The minister regretted the use of tear gas, which also affected uninvolved fans, families and children.

At the same time, she confirmed that France was able to organize major sporting events and referred to the 2016 European Football Championship.

All lessons should be learned from Saturday night's events, also with a view to the 2023 Rugby World Cup and the 2024 Olympic Games in France.

Together with Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, Oudéa-Castéra wanted to take part in a crisis meeting on Monday morning to deal with the chaos at the Stade de France.

"It's a shame to blame the fans"

The British government, on the other hand, renewed its criticism of the French security forces.

"I was appalled by these images of French police using pepper spray against fans, including children and the disabled," Secretary of State Chris Philp told Sky News on Monday.

"And from the pictures I saw, there was no obvious justification for this type of behavior." The European football union UEFA urgently needs to investigate this approach, Philp from the culture ministry responsible for sport demanded.

Liverpool Mayor Joanne Anderson described the actions of the French police against British fans as "extremely disgusting".

The police acted "really brutally" and the way the football game was organized was "chaotic," Anderson, who was at the stadium herself, told the BBC on Monday.

Liverpool supporters should be given an apology.

“Our fans have been stereotyped in terms of their behavior.

I get angrier and angrier the more stories I hear," Anderson said.

"Fans need to be treated with more respect."

Earlier, the mayor (Labour party) had announced that she would ask British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss for answers from UEFA and French President Emmanuel Macron to investigate the incidents.

"Shame to blame the fans," Anderson tweeted.

The police in Paris registered more than 100 arrests and 230 injuries around the final between Liverpool FC and Real Madrid, which the Spaniards won 1-0.

UEFA explained the chaos at the entrance to the large number of fans without valid tickets.

The turnstiles at the entrance for Liverpool fans were blocked because thousands of supporters with fake tickets could not go through them.

The police used tear gas.

The kick-off time was pushed back by more than half an hour.

Fan representatives criticize a one-sided representation by UEFA.