Two days after the fiasco of the organization of the final of the Champions League, the French authorities do not budge: the main cause of the excesses would come from the fans of the Reds.

Thus, the Minister of Sports and the Olympic Games, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, estimated on Monday on RTL that Liverpool "had left its supporters in the wild.

The fact that the Real club has supervised the coming of its supporters to Paris to such an extent (…), which contrasts radically with what the Liverpool club has done, which has left its supporters in the wild, has created a difference major.

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Asked about the number of English spectators without tickets, she quoted the figure of “30 to 40,000 people of “fake tickets” and “without tickets”.

We have to look where these counterfeits are coming from.

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She confirmed that Liverpool had asked UEFA, which agreed, not to use the mobile application but to have paper tickets, “a circuit of paper tickets which created overflows”.

A meeting on Monday morning

Amélie Oudéa-Castéra judged "that the most regrettable aspect of what happened" was that tear gas was used against families and children who came to watch the final.

Asked whether she was "worried" about future events that France was going to organize such as the Olympics, the Minister of Sports replied that France "was capable of organizing very large sporting events" citing the Tour de France or Euro 2016.

I'm not worried, I'm very committed, very concerned that we learn absolutely all the lessons from what happened on Saturday evening to optimize everything that needs to be done in anticipation of the 2023 Rugby World Cup and of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

At the end of the morning, a meeting is organized at the Ministry of Sports to take stock of the dysfunctions with the sports organizers, in particular the consortium of the Stade de France in the presence of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, UEFA, or even the town hall of Saint-Denis.

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