The French Federation (FFF) and UEFA have assessed the number of “fake tickets scanned” at the Stade de France on Saturday at 2800 during the Champions League final.
A source familiar with the matter confirmed information from RMC Sports to AFP.
The FFF and UEFA gave this assessment during the meeting Monday at the Ministry of Sports intended to draw lessons from the fiasco of this meeting. But among these 2,800 counterfeit tickets may include real tickets that have been incorrectly activated, according to lawyer Pierre Barthélémy.
On Monday, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin spoke of a “massive, industrial and organized” ticket fraud which would be the cause of the chaos, evoking 30,000 to 40,000 English supporters at the Stade de France “either without a ticket , or with forged banknotes’. But the minister was content to give a percentage of ‘70%’ of counterfeit paper notes detected in pre-filtering on the English side, without giving a figure.
To be taken with caution
The 2800 ‘fake tickets scanned’, according to sources familiar with the matter, are a figure ‘to be taken with caution’, according to Me Barthélémy, lawyer for groups of French supporters and present at the match on Saturday evening.
‘We had to activate the electronic tickets, and there were breakdowns, computer bugs at the level of the gates which caused some real tickets to be scanned as fake’, he explains.
‘I want as proof the testimony of Robertson, the Liverpool player, who offered official tickets to relatives. Once at the turnstiles, they were told that these tickets were fake,’ recalled Pierre Barthélémy.
need to understand
An investigation has been entrusted to the Paris judicial police into the alleged ticket fraud and UEFA has launched an independent investigation to shed light on Saturday’s incidents. ‘
The investigations (…) will establish the accuracy of the facts, the volumes, traffic or no traffic, the origin of this traffic, and what exactly happened,” said sports minister Amélie Oudéa-Castera. on the sidelines of a visit to the organizing committee of the Paris Olympics. ‘We all need to understand,’ she added.
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