The crisis meetings, reports and recommendations that followed the serious incidents at the Stade de France during the Champions League final are still fresh in everyone’s mind. But this Saturday night, September 3, when rapper Bubba drew 80,000 fans for a historic concert marking the peak of his career, several dozen people again managed to keep security forces around the stadium, and some even managed to attend the concert without tickets. causing a scene of panic among the people waiting in line. Audience members who had been issued with a valid ticket then waited for three quarters of an hour in front of a screened entrance before finally being able to join their seats when the concert had already started. This Sunday evening, the Paris Police Headquarters reported Figaro that 18 of those who entered the stadium illegally, however, were identified, and then the agents expelled them.
Le Figaro was able to collect the testimony of one of the spectators who witnessed this new scene of violence at the entrance of the stadium. While he lined up in front of Gate U, he saw the arrival at around 7:45 p.m.about sixty young people dressed in black and who did not have tickets to the concert(while JP speaks “twenty individuals“). According to our witness, Jesse, one of them then had to start a countdown before signaling to attack the security gates where the stadium agents were checking tickets;They counted to three, then charged. There were one or two policemen and maybe six officers, but they were stunned and there were too many people. There was a movement of panic in the row, everyone left, it was very violent. People were shocked, I saw many crying girls! By the time about fifteen policemen arrived as reinforcements, it was too late, sixty of them had already passed through the gates and climbed the steps leading to the stands.»
Jesse notes that the facts took place in an area within which the audience was the subject of the initial screening, but it was only a body search; Spectators did not have to present a ticket before passing through the gates. So it was no surprise that people without tickets were able to enter the gates and force their way through the gates from there. As for the police, they were numerous in this area near the search points, but few were present at the gates.
“When the police finally came, it was too late. Jessie continues. but they still closed the gates and asked us to retreat. Then we had to wait three quarters of an hour before we could finally get in, and by the time I took my seat, the intro of the concert had already passed, we got in too late.Above all, he believes that he recognized some of the people who were forced in before his eyes and who later attended the concert, sitting comfortably in the rows of the stadium and even some of them in the golden square.
18 people were deported
Has joined Le FigaroThe headquarters of the Paris police relativizes the extent of the facts and in turn states that most people would have been expelled from the stadium after that.The security guards failed to block all the heroes. As part of the system created in the surroundings and on the entrance routes of the spectators, the present policemen were called to reinforce the stewards. […] Of the twenty individuals who returned without the title, 18 were identified by video operators at the Stade de France and escorted out of the arena by private security.»
Police headquarters, however, confirmed that none of the ticketless spectators who forced their way in were arrested and that “other experimentsA secret invasion of the Stade de France took placecontained“thanks to”a massive device to secure and manage traffic around the stadium and to fight crime and prevent and suppress break-ins“. Will legal action be taken against rioters whose faces have been clearly identified in CCTV footage? The police headquarters cannot provide details on this topic for now.
13 street traders were also arrested and detained outside the area, as well as the man who used violence during the dispute outside the stadium.
Source: Le Figaro
