PARIS | A chaotic final that turns into a rat race: three days after the organizational failures around the Stade de France, anger persists in Liverpool, whose president on Tuesday demanded an apology from the French authorities for having pointed the finger at supporters of the Reds .

• Read also: Chaotic scenes around the Stade de France: after the Champions League fiasco, time for explanations

• Read also: A 14th title for Real Madrid in the Champions League

Like many fans of his club returning from Paris, where the Champions League final lost to Real Madrid (1-0) gave rise to scenes of pre-match chaos, Liverpool president Tom Werner is unworthy. He wrote it in a letter to French Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castera, a copy of which local daily Liverpool Echo obtained.

In question, the remarks in a press briefing on Monday by Ms. Oudéa-Castera and the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin who repeated what they have been saying since Saturday evening: British supporters would be largely responsible for the mess in Saint -Denis, at the gates of Paris, with a “massive, industrial and organized fraud of counterfeit banknotes”. The sports minister further said that Liverpool 'left their supporters in the wild'.

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.

Tom Werner expressed his "total disbelief" that Amélie Oudéa-Castera could make "a series of unproven statements on a subject of such importance", even before a thorough investigation was held.

“Your comments are irresponsible, unprofessional and totally disrespectful of the thousands of physically and emotionally hurt supporters,” he added, saying he had received countless emails from “scared to death” supporters and denouncing “a strategy seeking to attribute the fault of others”.

"On behalf of all supporters who have experienced this nightmare, I ask for an apology from you, and an assurance that the French authorities and UEFA will allow an independent and transparent investigation to take place," he said. he added, as the European football body confirmed on Monday that it would commission an “independent report”.

Disputed figures

According to Gérald Darmanin, "30,000 to 40,000 English supporters found themselves at the Stade de France, either without a ticket or with falsified tickets".

This situation has, according to the authorities, contributed to significantly inflate the crowd which thronged at the gates of the Stade de France and led to endless queues, a massive congestion which did not cause any serious injuries.

But the figures put forward are disputed, including on the French side.

"30 to 40,000 counterfeit tickets seems very, very big to me," confirmed former left-wing deputy Regis Juanico, a specialist in sports issues. “I am waiting for the hearing of the two ministers on Wednesday in the Senate to find out more”. The meeting is scheduled for 5 p.m.

The intelligence services had for their part alerted the French authorities before this final.

Dated May 25, a note from the National Division for the Fight against Hooliganism (DNLH) written in connection with the intelligence services, of which AFP became aware, reported “about 50,000 English supporters present in the capital. French (who) will not be ticket holders".

On the judicial level, six men will be tried in Bobigny, competent for the department of Seine-Saint-Denis where the Stade de France is located, for thefts to the detriment of supporters on the sidelines of the final.

Next match Friday at the Stade de France

And, twelve days before the first round of the legislative elections (June 12 and 19), the affair took a highly political turn in France, in particular on the authorities' ability to organize major sporting events one year before the World Cup. rugby 2023 and two years from the Olympic Games in Paris.

The deputy LR (right) Eric Ciotti called on Tuesday for the creation in the National Assembly of a commission of inquiry into the incidents.

The mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi, ex-LR rallied to the presidential majority, for his part asked for the use of facial recognition during large-scale sporting events.

All eyes are now on the next match at the Stade de France, the France-Denmark meeting in the League of Nations on Friday (8:45 p.m.), a poster that promises to be sold out.

Trade unions of the Paris transport authority (RATP) have launched a new call for a strike on the RER B for Friday, after their movement on Saturday which may have accentuated the dysfunctions, since many supporters of the Reds had fallen back on the RER D, a source of congestion on arrival.

"We are organizing a match, there are very regularly at the Stade de France and very regularly, things are going well", played down the mayor of Saint-Denis Mathieu Hanotin on the BFMTV channel on Tuesday.

The boss of the JO-2024 Tony Estanguet wanted to be reassuring: he explained to AFP that it was necessary to “learn the lessons” from the fiasco at the Stade de France, which will host the athletics events, while ensuring that all the world would be "ready" in two years.