The head of Paris police has offered a thin-lipped apology for the carnage which unfolded during the Champions League final.
But Didier Lallement, who was speaking before a Senate committee meeting in the French parliament, doubled down on his claims that tear-gassing and kettling of innocent fans was necessary, to “avoid an invasion”.
And despite admitting the operation at the Stade de France final between Liverpool and Real Madrid was “evidently a failure”, he suggested he was still satisfied with the police organisation of security “because no one died”. The Prefect of Police DID admit that he had no scientific basis for his claims that “30-40,000 ticketless fans” tried to “invade the stadium”.
