The chairman into the inquiry assessing how events were handled on the night of Liverpool's Champions League final with Real Madrid has branded Gerald Darmanin's claims as "bull****".
And French opposition minister Francois-Noel Buffet, who is co-chair of the inquiry that is looking into the chaos outside the Stade de France on May 28, has slammed interior minister Mr Darmanin for effectively falsifying claims over the number of "fake tickets" in circulation on the night.
Thousands of supporters of both clubs were subjected to horrendous treatment from French police and local gangs as they queued to get inside the ground for the European showpiece last month.
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Hundreds of witness testimonies have since been written about the indiscriminate use of tear gas and riot shields with dozens of videos available on social media sites to back up those reports.
In the wake of the incidents, Mr Darmanin attempted to pin the blame on '40,000 ticketless fans' in claims that have since been debunked and the French interior minister eventually offered a subdued apology on French television last week.
The Spirit of Shankly and the Liverpool Disabled Supporters Association last week told the ECHO of the need for a full French parliamentary inquiry and Mr Buffet has now slammed Mr Darmanin in quotes given to Le Progres in France.
"The major problem comes from the minister of the interior, who lied," Buffet said. "Following the events, he told us bull****. That is what sparked the fire. If he had admitted to mistakes and apologised, there would have been no huge controversy.
"Initially, [Darmanin] told us there were 30,000 fake tickets. In the end, only 2,800 fake tickets were counted [by UEFA]. He had also said that it was the fault of the English, who had caused all the carnage.
"This is not true in reality. The English were not responsible. They have nothing to do with it. It was the poor organisation [of the match] that caused all the difficulties that were encountered, in particular the [security] controls at the stadium."
The findings of the investigation which is being overseen by Buffet and co-chairman, Laurent Lafon, will be published in full in a public report on July 13.
In the days after the game, Liverpool chairman Tom Werner wrote to the French government, expressing his "utter disbelief" at Darmanin's attempts to pin the blame on supporters and demanded answers, suggesting people at the venue were "treated like cattle" by the authorities on the night.
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