![]() ![]() The panel added that there had been an “abject failure by Uefa in meeting its responsibilities”. Inadequate provision for crowd safety and event management, unprovoked assaults on fans by the police and local gangs. Their report found there had been: inadequate pre-match preparation by Uefa and the Paris agencies, aggressive policing “On leaving the stadium, they were attacked at knife-point by gangs who stole their possessions,” they added. The panel said fans were “held for several hours in a bottleneck” near the stadium, before finding themselves “again in static queues at malfunctioning turnstiles”. More than 480 testimonies by supporters and journalists at the May 28 final were examined by an independent panel, which included Prof Phil Scraton, who previously led a report into the 1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster. Experts told BBC Panorama that fans’ calm response was the main reason why overcrowding outside the stadium had not resulted in fatalities. Uefa said it would not comment until its own inquiry concludes in November. ![]() Organisers initially blamed fake tickets and supporters, but their claims drew widespread criticism. The organisation of May’s Champions League final by European football’s ruling body Uefa was “an abject failure”, a panel of experts has said.įans were robbed and tear-gassed outside Liverpool and Real Madrid’s game at Paris’s Stade de France and kick-off was delayed by 36 minutes. ![]()
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