The case of the incidents at the Stade de France during the 2022 Champions League final had caused a lot of noise. Sunday in Courchevel, the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, assured that France had "learned all the lessons" from this episode. An independent report pinned UEFA at the start of the week, but also the reaction of the French security forces. "We will deliver major international sporting events," the minister promised ahead of the 2023 Rugby World Cup and the 2024 Paris Olympics.
"We have shown that we are at work to learn absolutely all the lessons from all of this, on flow management, on the deployment of security forces, the mobilization of private security agencies, crime prevention plans" , said Amélie Oudéa-Castéra in the mixed zone of the Alpine Skiing World Championships, which ended on Sunday in Courchevel with the men's slalom. "We are very hard at work with Gérald Darmanin on all these issues, both on the Rugby World Cup and the Olympic and Paralympic Games [...] We have learned all the lessons and we will deliver major international sporting events," said insisted the Minister.
Earlier this week, an independent report pointed to the responsibility of UEFA, the French Football Federation (FFF) and the authorities in the security "disaster" of the 2022 Champions League final Liverpool-Real Madrid played at the Stade de France. Endless waiting, supporters and families sprayed with tear gas or victims of robbery... The law enforcement system during this Champions League final had given rise to scenes of chaos in Saint-Denis on May 28, 2022, provoking a lively controversy in France and England.
Experts in the report, led by Portugal's former Education, Youth and Sports Minister Tiago Brandao Rodrigues, said they were "flabbergasted" that the match's policing pattern could have been influenced by image of Liverpool supporters as hooligans, an "inexplicable misconception". Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin initially blamed British supporters for allegedly having many forged tickets, before the then Paris police chief, Didier Lallement, admitted he "may have been mistaken on their number, acknowledging a "failure".
