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72 hours after the

Champions League

final , the echoes of "

fear" and "chaos

" experienced in the

Saint Denis

neighborhood continue to arrive , where the

Stade de France

is located, which hosted the duel between

Liverpool

and

Real Madrid

.

As this newspaper

has been reporting

in recent days, both before and after the game,

scenes more typical of pitched battles

than of the supposed '

football party

' were experienced.

"It's the French boys, not the English fans," the British claimed at the gates of the stadium.

"

They were going to sack, to steal everything

", told the madridista fans.

The relatives of the players, theoretically more protected by security, also suffered moments of extreme danger in a situation that "could

have been much worse

", as

Julia Vigas ,

Thiago Alcántara

's wife, complained

.

"We were constantly threatened by gangs of robbers trying to rob us and sneaking into the stadium without a ticket. The police threw tear gas at families and fans, and some of them were also beaten. They were all innocent people.

We had to be escorted out .

for our safety

. We ask for responsibility, this could have been much worse," he declared.

The last to join the reflection and report on what happened was

Dani Carvajal

, Real Madrid winger.

The family of the Madrid youth squad traveled with the expedition to

Paris

and experienced first-hand the "lack of control" of the security before and after the final.

"

It was quite an important lack

of control . The families and the people closest to me, my parents, my wife and my son, had to be left at the gate of the stadium because

they could not guarantee their safety

when entering," he acknowledged in a event with the Spanish team at the

Ciudad del Fútbol

.

"Inside they told us that the delay in the start

was for security

. We were finding out everything.

It is a pity that the final is stained

. They must take note so that everything improves because there were people who have suffered a lot and what should be a dream day, there were people who couldn't enjoy it," he added.

A saturday of chaos

The final began at

9:36

p.m. on Saturday night, more than half an hour later than planned and with the Liverpool stands practically full.

Before, the 'red' fans suffered a funnel at the gates caused by the constant attempt of

young French people

to enter the stadium without a ticket.

At one hour from the start, around eight in the afternoon, the Madrid stands were already full, while in the English zone half of the people were still missing.

The location of

Liverpool's 'fan zone'

in the

center of Paris

, with the obligation to take the metro to get to the Stade de France thus causing the funnel, has also been denounced.

At the doors everything was tears, rage and impotence.

A few meters away, the police continued to charge with

pepper spray

against the young people who did not have a ticket and who tried, by force, to break down the doors.

The guards tried to free the accesses to be able to control well who had a ticket and who did not, but with the game started and with the screams that could be heard in the background, it was impossible.

The situation turned into chaos, the fans with a ticket demanded to see the duel ("

I paid 2,000 euros

!" One said to EL MUNDO), those who did not have a ticket awaited the opportunity and the police decided to cut to the chase and disperse to the masses.

"

We ran and heard the police shots

. We took our six-year-old boy in our arms and covered his face so that he would not see that horror,"

Enrique Cazorla

, a Madrid member since 1987, explained to this newspaper yesterday. "They were going to sack, pushing anyone who got in the way. I saw one who had taken a policeman's pistol and ran away with it," said

Luis Francisco Abanades

, a witness.

"They came in groups of four and shouted 'Hala, Madrid' before surrounding you. In search of your mobile, your wallet or your backpack. Someone would run out with the money in their socks," explained

Marcos Sánchez

, de la Peña. Capote and Montera.

An inexplicable chaos a year and a half before the

2024 Paris Olympic Games

in which the Stade de France, with capacity for 75,000 spectators, will host the opening and closing ceremonies, the athletics events and the rugby tournament.



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