After the chaos surrounding the Champions League final in Paris, the European football union UEFA contacted the affected fans “sincere” sorry. You could have one evening “who should have been a celebration of European club football witnessed or experienced frightening and harrowing events” have to. “No football fan should be put in a situation like this and it must not happen again”it said in a UEFA statement on Friday evening.
The police in Paris registered more than 100 arrests and 230 injuries around the final. UEFA explained the chaos at the entrance to the high number of fans without valid tickets and commissioned an independent investigative report. The police used tear gas. The kick-off time was pushed back by more than half an hour. Fan representatives criticize a one-sided representation by UEFA. The investigation is led by Portuguese Tiago Brandão Rodrigues.