The Ministers of the Interior and Sports are heard by the senators this Wednesday at 5:00 p.m.
Four days after the chaos around the Stade de France, the Ministers of the Interior Gérald Darmanin and of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra must explain themselves on Wednesday June 1 before the Senate, dominated by the right. They will be heard jointly for two hours by the Law and Culture Commissions from 5:00 p.m., during a session open to the press and broadcast on the website of the Upper House.
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With the approach of the legislative elections, the affair took a highly political turn, in particular on the French capacity to organize major sporting events one year from the 2023 Rugby World Cup and two years from the Olympic Games in Paris. François-Noël Buffet, LR president of the law commission, warned a few hours before the hearing on France Info, that he was expecting a “speech of truth“.
Irresponsible comments
In a joint press release signed with the chairman of the Culture Committee, he judged on Tuesday “important to ensure that all the lessons of this evening (were) learned quickly to reassure the world about France’s ability to host major events“. But until then, the controversy remains lively around the device for maintaining order on the sidelines of this match, won by Real Madrid (1-0) against Liverpool.
The president of the Liverpool club, Tom Werner, also expressed in a letter his indignation to Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, after his remarks and those of Gérald Darmanin, who have been repeating since Saturday evening that the British supporters would be largely responsible for the incidents, with amassive, industrial and organized counterfeit banknote fraud“.
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These charges bring back to Liverpool supporters the horrible memories of the Hillsborough disaster which left 97 dead in 1989 in a mob for which Reds fans had long been held responsible before the bad decisions of the police. are not recognised. “Your comments are irresponsible, unprofessional and totally disrespectful“, wrote Tom Werner in his letter, whose daily Liverpool Echo got a copy.
On Tuesday, the Minister of Sports for her part opened the door to the beginning of a mea culpa: “We have Liverpool supporters who were in good standing, whose evening was either ruined or some of them were unable to attend this match, and there we clearly owe them an apology.“. However, the figures put forward by the French government remain highly criticized, in England as in France.
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