Real Madrid fan proves French authorities wrong by backing Liverpool supporters in Stade de France fiasco

A Real Madrid fan delivered an explosive testimony to the French senate in Paris on Tuesday afternoon which proved that some of the country’s most powerful authorities have been spreading mistruths about what happened at the UEFA Champions League final.

Football fans who attended May’s fixture between Los Blancos and Liverpool at the Stade de France were tear gassed by French riot police, forced into dangerous crushes outside the stadium, and mugged by gangs of local delinquents in a shameful night for European football and governing body UEFA.

In the aftermath, French officials including interior minister Gérald Darmanin, sports minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra and chief of Paris police Didier Lallement have all attempted to pin the blame on ‘the English’ Liverpool supporters for the carnage, claiming that fans arrived late, in mass numbers without tickets, and too drunken without providing a single piece of evidence to substantiate their claims.

Before fans spoken on Tuesday, UEFA’s CEO of event Martin Kallen repeated the French state’s claims that ticketless fans caused the issues at European football’s showpiece event, again without providing a scrap evidence to back up his version of events.

By contrast, Liverpool supporters have been posting masses of video evidence online which show severe organisational and security failures on the French authorities’ behalf. On Tuesday, disabled supporter Ted Morris gave a harrowing account in the senate of the trauma suffered by fans, which one senator described as ‘apocalyptic.’

Senate inquiry co-chairman Francois-Noel Buffet even preceded the fans’ testimony by saying: ‘English football fans were not the cause of these problems. Let’s say that clearly. They showed great control in