About The Stade
The Stade is a shingle beach in Hastings Old Town, Hastings, East Sussex, England. It has been used for beaching boats for more than a thousand years. It is now home to Europe's largest fleet of beach-launched fishing boats. The word stade is a Saxon term meaning landing place.
Rugby World Cup: Wales fans' woe as Argentina win
... Wales had gone into the match at The Stade de Marseilles as favourites...
Uefa's organisation of Champions League final a failure, panel finds
... The panel found that as the build-up outside The Stade de France became increasingly dangerous, a ticket checkpoint was removed, releasing fans on to the concourse, but event organisers had shut some stadium gates to control the situation, which had been exacerbated by hundreds of local people trying to enter without tickets...
Champions League: Nearly 2,000 Liverpool fans set to sue Uefa
... Liverpool law firm Bingham s said clients had spoken of " terrifying scenes" at The Stade de France...
Champions League: Witnesses raise new questions about chaos of Paris final
... Government ministers and match officials have so far blamed the chaos on fake paper tickets among Liverpool fans, a transport strike, and local troublemakers who broke into The Stade de France...
Unique terror trial that changed France
... Legally, his sentence rests on the attempted murder of police officers at The Stade de France by three other attackers, driven there by him...
Champions League: Disabled fans treated like animals - French Senate told
... Mr Darmanin said " massive, industrial-scale" ticket fraud had caused Liverpool fans to turn up en masse, and said that of about 30 arrests made at The Stade de France " more than half concerned British citizens"...
Emmanuel Macron a chastened and greatly weakened leader
... There were bad media moments, like and the fiasco at The Stade de France football match - in order to draw attention away from the real disgrace of the evening, which was local delinquency...
Champions League: Chain of failures marred Paris final, French inquiry says
... Real Madrid won the match 1-0 against Liverpool at The Stade de France...
Champions League: Disabled fans treated like animals - French Senate told
Disabled Liverpool fans have told an inquiry they were " treated like animals" amid the chaotic scenes at The Champions League final In Paris .
Supporters have described heavy-handed policing, organisational chaos and overcrowding at The Game on 28 May .
A disabled supporters' spokesman told the French Senate one wheelchair user had to be lifted over locked gates by fellow fans as she tried to escape.
Ted Morris urged the French Interior Minister to resign over The Event .
French minister only the English fans posed problems outside the stadium.
On Tuesday, Mr Morris, chairman of the Liverpool Disabled Supporters Association, gave the French Senate his account of events outside the Paris stadium before The Final .
The Match , which was eventually won by Real Madrid, was delayed when long queues of Liverpool fans built up outside the stadium In Paris .
French police used Tear Gas and pepper spray on some supporters.
Mr Darmanin said " massive, industrial-scale" ticket fraud had caused Liverpool fans to turn up en masse, and said that of about 30 arrests made at The Stade de France " More Than half concerned British citizens".
Mr Morris told the French Senate: " With My Wife , we love France and Paris, but you, Mr Darmanin, you lied and I ask you to withdraw your accusation.
" And if you have the decency to do so, I hope you have the decency to resign. "
The French Senate heard about one wheelchair user who was lifted over locked gates by fellow fans as she tried to escape the melee.
Another fan, an eight-year-old boy with autism became separated from his father, was later attacked after they had been reunited.
'Worst football experience'Mr Morris said: " A major catastrophe has been avoided. No power was able to come to the aid of the disabled supporters.
" Disabled fans were treated like animals.
" My Wife and I did not care about The Game any more at this stage, " he continued.
" We left in the 86th minute and the steward told us we couldn't Get Out because some locals were still trying to go into the stadium.
" In the underpass - at The Exit of the stadium under The Gaze of The Police , a few minutes later - locals attacked us and it was terrifying, especially for the disabled supporters.
" As we walked towards The Station we hoped that The Police would intervene.
" It was the worst football experience. "
Joe Blott, chair of The Spirit of Shankly supporters' group, accused police of operating on preconceived notions dating back to the 1980s in their handling of English supporters and insisted the use of Tear Gas on innocent fans was " not necessary".
Mr Blott also urged The Authorities to learn from their mistakes ahead of next year's Rugby World Cup in France and the 2024 Olympic Games In Paris .
He described the behaviour of Liverpool fans as " exemplary".
" We demand an apology and a retraction of the lies being told and for the supporters who will be travelling to the Rugby World Cup and to The Olympics , a fair investigation. "
A French government report previously said.
They included lack of preparation for travelling fans, huge numbers of people without tickets or fake ones, and security failures at the stadium.
The Report does not apportion blame, but recommends improvements which the government says will be implemented.
Source of news: bbc.com
