Champions League Final: Harrowing accounts of post-match violence spark debate
A week has gone by but the stadium “fiasco” remains a hot issue in France, with new and harrowing accounts about the breakdown in law and order when the match had come to an end.
Among Liverpool fans whose translated testimony has been circulating widely on social media is UFC fighter Paddy Pimblett, who said he had “never been so scared in my life … as when I came out of that ground on Saturday night”.
“At least when you are in a cage it is one against one,” the mixed martial artist said.
“There were groups of 30 men, running around in big packs. Some of them had weapons: machetes, knives, bars and bats. People were being pinned to the floor and having their watches taken.
“Carnage” at the Stade de France: hundreds of “young people” and migrants attacked, chased and robbed English and Spanish supporters, the police report sexual assaults
Stade de France is located the banlieue of Saint Denis. You know who the “Yutes” are.
