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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Abigail Nicholson

Champions League final inquiry shows no evidence of 40,000 ticketless fans

A damning report into the Champions League Final in Paris has found "systematic failings in the organisation".

The Prime Minister of France commissioned a report into the treatment of fans in the build up and aftermath of the Paris Final after Liverpool fans were tear-gassed and pushed into bottlenecks by French Police. The author of the 30-page report, Michel Cadot, said the claims of Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, that as many as 40,000 Liverpool fans were to blame for the chaos should be "relativised".

Evidence also suggested it was a breakdown in communication between authorities, and the failure to recognise “serious failings” in the kettling of fans and at malfunctioning entry gates, which caused the horrendous scenes, MirrorOnline reports.

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