The Paris final of this 2022 will be remembered for Vinicius’s goal that crowned Real Madrid against Liverpool and gave him the Fourteenth. Also because of the saves by Courtois or Salah’s lament at the chances that escaped him for the second time against the whites, but the memory of what was experienced outside the stadium that conditioned the game will never be lacking.
Thousands of Liverpool fans experienced a complicated moment in their access where they suffered robbery attempts, in addition to a threat of avalanche due to problems at the tickets, of which some said they were false. The situation was really complicated and, luckily, it ended without serious incidents.
Those that occurred are under investigation by UEFA and also from the French government, which pointed to the organization of the European confederation for the problem with false entries.
In El Larguero of Cadena SER, Two Real Madrid fans reported that access was complicated, but even more so was leaving and returning to hotels or vehicles. A point, they point out, in which few are influencing and it was even worse say Javier Real and Pedro Alcaína at the yellow microphone.
“I traveled with a group of friends and we entered the field an hour and a half before because there was a lot of commotion with the tickets. It could be seen from outside. We went with time for it to clear up. When we wanted to access the first ring we saw that the police were inside the stadium, something I have not seen anywhere. Among the 500 people who were crowded to enter there was a group of North Africans who were directly putting their hands into our wallets and mobile phones. The issue of digital tickets, very nice, but It forces you to have your mobile in your hand. In front of me I find that there is a man with his mobile in his hand and two men from the Maghreb appear who take his phone. The man tries to retrieve it and one of them falls and pulls a knife on him. From there we began to see organized people, groups, stealing. We passed thanks to the fact that many Madrid fans let those of us who were with children enter. In the stadium, things normalized. We did not enjoy as we should have enjoyed because we had the return”, narrated Real about access to the stadium.
For him, the lap was even worse as he was lucky enough not to find his car wrecked and to be able to return. “We traveled by car and looked for reviews, luckily we saw that two or three years ago there were comments about the car park from people who had found their car wrecked. We left the car in the Basilica car park, which is two kilometers away. When we left , was total lack of control.It was a very long street and they came out of all the streets. I saw a man with a gun and two men with knives forcing a woman to take it from him. Thanks to a police friend, we made a ring attached to a wall to walk quickly without looking back and letting no one get close. We were slapping. I had to slap someone who tried to take my mobile. In the parking lot, there were smashed cars. Among them, one of my friends. I’m not going back to Saint Denis and even less with the child”. Real also wanted to make a gesture with the Liverpool fans. “I want to send a hug to the Liverpool fans, because they are victims. We were together in the area of the Eiffel Tower and everything was very good”
Pedro Alcaína, another fan who attended the final, recounts a very similar experience and points out that what happened at the stadium march was almost worse than at the entrance. “I went with my daughter. We entered first thing in the morning, but we realized it. The fact of the digital entrances, for those who do not know it, the qr is disabled until a steward hands you a device in the first ring. There were people trying to take photos. At the entrance, not much more than the queue happened, but they are very tiptoeing about what happened at the exit,” he said.
“At the exit we were in the northern zone and many people from Liverpool began to clear from their sector and in the neutral zone. When we left there was a flood of people leaving through a walkway, which forced them to go through there, and ended up in the last security ring that was under a highway. From there it was the feeling of being wildebeest crossing the river with crocodiles waiting. It was a funnel. TAll the people who come behind push you but in front there are groups of criminals to see who is the scapegoat. As we left I saw a delinquent taking a girl’s bag. The girl screaming and the impassive police with a feeling that if they did something it would be worse because they were inferior. I was with a 13-year-old teenager, the eyes with which they looked at her... We ran out of the pepper spray, not being able to see… See people lying on the ground”, he sentenced about a night of celebration and for the story that was tarnished.