Liverpool fan 'stabbed with needle' in Paris claims "it feels like they were hunting us"

A Liverpool fan has relived his terror after claims he was attacked with a needle during terrifying scenes after the Champions League final in Paris.

Brad Young described how his trip to the French capital quickly turned into a nightmare amid claims he and his friends were targeted by local gangs on the way out of the Stade de France on Saturday 28 May.

The 24-year-old from Belfast had won tickets to the game in a competition just days before the match after missing out on the ballot, the ECHO reports.

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Brad said: "We actually booked flights and accommodation as soon as the final got moved to Paris. We couldn't get tickets but were just going to go and watch it in the fan zone. I couldn't believe it when I won the competition and won tickets just four days before the final."

He and his friends travelled to Paris and said the atmosphere in the Liverpool fan zone was "brilliant" before the match.

They said they managed to avoid some of the worst scenes outside the ground before the game, as thousands of Liverpool fans were forced into dangerously small areas before being targeted with pepper spray and tear gas by French police.

But it was after the match that the mood inside the stadium shifted. Brad said: "It was a strange atmosphere inside the stadium, there were so many empty seats and then there were lots of locals suddenly coming in to our section, we didn't know what was going on.

"When we left after the game it turned so sour so quickly. We walked into clouds of tear gas and the police were hitting fans who weren't moving, but they couldn't physically move."

After escaping from the stadium, Brad said he became aware of large numbers of local