An incident that plays extra time. The Senate announced on Monday its decision to hear the Ministers of the Interior and Sports, Gérald Darmanin and Amélie Oudéa-Castera, present on Saturday at the Stade de France for the Champions League final. It will be a question of “ensuring that all the lessons of this evening are learned quickly to reassure the world on the capacity of France to host major events”, estimate Laurent Lafon and François-Noël Buffet, presidents of the law commissions and culture of the Senate. “The event that occurred on Saturday created enough controversy for Parliament to exercise its right of control,” adds François-Noël Buffet.
Faced with these incidents which “have given a sad image of France in the eyes of the world”, the two commissions will jointly hear the ministers concerned, “in order to understand the circumstances which led to this situation and to determine the responsibilities of the various national actors. and international organizations concerned”.
A hearing that stokes the still hot embers of a fiasco. After the events that punctuated the European match on Saturday May 28, the two ministers nevertheless brought together the stakeholders involved in the organization of this meeting on Monday, to “draw lessons”. The Minister of the Interior maintained his version of the facts, denouncing a “massive, organized and industrial fraud” of a very large number of British supporters, which would be the “evil root” at the origin of these incidents.
A version however strongly criticized by the opposition. “A bit quick and cowardly to put the problem on the British supporters alone,” said Republican MP Éric Ciotti, adding that “all the light must be shed on those responsible for this violence”. Marine Le Pen (RN) deplores “a global humiliation for France, whose image continues to tarnish” and accuses Gérald Darmanin of being “unable to maintain order in the face of the scum, who are in spoiling what should be a popular event”. Éric Zemmour believes for his part that “the problem is neither the English supporters nor the police, the problem is that Seine-Saint-Denis has largely become a foreign enclave”, and affirms that it is “the scum who make the law” in this department bordering Paris where the Stade de France is located.
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This Monday, Senator LR Michel Savin, president of the Senate’s “Sporting practices and major sporting events” study group, asked for the opening of a commission of inquiry in the Upper House to shed light on the events that occurred this Monday. weekend near the sports enclosure. But several sources specify to Figaro that “as it stands”, the opening of such an investigation is “impossible”.
“It is forbidden to open a commission of inquiry if legal proceedings are initiated, and this is the case for the events which took place in Saint-Denis”, specifies one to the presidency of the Senate. Moreover, the senators do not exclude, according to our information, going further than these simple hearings. “There are other tools. The opening of a senatorial mission is not excluded, which would allow us to go further in the investigations”, indicates François-Noël Buffet.
