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Report: Mistakes, not Liverpool fans, caused CL final fiasco

(AP) – French senators said the Since the final, where kickoff was
chaos outside the national stadi- delayed by more than 30 minutes,
um that marred the Champions French senators have quizzed sup-
League soccer final was due to a porters and officials. Introducing
series of mistakes by police and their findings, Lafon blamed a gen-
officials — and not the actions eral lack of coordination and author-
of previously blamed Liverpool ity, saying there was "malfunction at
fans — with "malfunction at ev- every stage" of the final.
ery stage" before, during and af- UEFA has also started gathering evi-
ter the game. dence about issues that marred one of
the world's biggest games in sports.
The senators made a series of recom- Real Madrid went on to beat Liver-
mendations to fix problems ahead of pool 1-0 in the final.
the Rugby World Cup next year and
the 2024 Olympics that France will Lafon also apologized to Liverpool
host. The findings of a report into the and Real Madrid fans, saying they
May 28 final were released Wednes- were victims and not responsible for
day after the fiasco drew worldwide the events as French authorities had sured, noting that police forces strug- zure of the footage within seven days
attention to heavy-handed polic- initially suggested. gled to put an end to the petty crime after the incidents.
ing and raised questions about how that took place around the stadium,
France manages security at big events. France's interior minister, Gerald He said this should have been fore- Buffet recommended that keeping
Laurent Lafon, the head of one of the Darmanin, initially maintained that seen and better handled. such video for 30 days would become
Senate commissions involved in the the presence of up to 40,000 sup- mandatory.
fact-finding mission, urged French porters — allegedly mainly Liver- "The number of people mobilized to "What we will miss forever are the
authorities to draw lessons from the pool fans — without tickets or with fight against delinquency was there- images. The real regret is there," said
multiple incidents. forged tickets led to the incidents fore undersized," he said. Buffet.
that marred the event. But only 2,471 Senators also pointed to the poor
"The seriousness of what happened forged tickets were identified at the Senators also criticized the decision handling of fans, and where they
at the Stade de France shows that Stade de France. by the police prefecture to set up a tried to enter the stadium, as a conse-
there are still many adjustments to be pre-filtering system of fans designed quence of a transport strike. Stewards
made, and many decisions to be taken Darmanin also said that dispersing to prevent terror attacks in combina- needed better training in future, with
to ensure that these incidents do not the crowd that had amassed near the tion with ticket checks by stewards. improved coordination with police
happen again," Lafon said. stadium's fences with tear gas was the Buffet said this had unintentionally forces.
only way to prevent people getting created a bottleneck, and should not
He had no doubt that France is ca- crushed. be repeated in the future. The Paris police chief, Didier Lal-
pable of organizing major events in Many supporters also complained Lafon also criticized the ticketing sys- lement, has previously justified the
the future but said assurances should about thefts and assaults after the tem by UEFA and said paper tickets pepper spraying of fans, many with
be given at the highest level, includ- match as they left the stadium. were easily forged. families, amid the chaos. Lafon said
ing French President Emmanuel Ma- Senators regretted the automatic de- Lallement had a clear responsibil-
cron, about the country's determina- Francois-Noel Buffet, the president letion of CCTV footage of events ity in the failure, and Buffet recom-
tion to prevent any repeat. of the Senate's law commission, said outside the Stade de France since ju- mended more clarity over when the
fans' security was not sufficiently en- dicial officials did not request the sei- use of tear gas was justified.

Bennison scores winner for Sweden against illness-hit Swiss

(AP) — Hanna Benni- kept Sweden at bay until the qualifying for the quarterfi- through the team camp.
son came off the bench to 52nd minute, when Frido- Bennison scored the win- nals.
score with a thunderous lina Rolfö finished off a slick ning goal in the 79th with a Monday's training session
shot and give Sweden a 2-1 Swedish team move through powerful shot from just out- Switzerland's preparations was canceled but coach Nils
win Wednesday against a the center. Switzerland re- side the penalty area. Sweden for the game were disrupted Nielsen was able to field a
Switzerland team affected sponded immediately with twice had the ball in the net when eight players and 11 nearly unchanged starting
by illness at the European a curling shot from Ramona late on but was offside both members of staff had to be lineup, with only one af-
Championship. Bachmann for the equal- times. isolated from the rest of the fected player, defender Rahel
izer after Swedish goalkeeper Both teams had drawn their team on Sunday night and Kiwic, moving to the bench.
The determined and well- Hedvig Lindahl gave away opening games, and the win early Monday morning as a
organized Swiss defense the ball. puts Sweden on the verge of gastrointestinal illness swept