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Disabled Liverpool supporters will tell the French Senate today how they had to flee for their lives, chased by a baying mob of hundreds of yobs outside the Stade de France, after the Champions League final.
Ted Morris, chairman of the Liverpool Disabled Supporters’ Association, will tell the commission investigating the appalling scenes at the French national stadium, that he was among Liverpool fans targeted by hooligans throwing bottles and wielding knives, while the police stood by, before teargassing the traumatised supporters.
Morris, a wheelchair user since he lost the use of his legs through a medical condition seven years ago, will present nine harrowing testimonies from disabled fans, while Joe Blott, chairman of the Spirit of Shankly group, will also submit evidence of mismanagement at the final and abuse of those attending.
There was an initial attempt to solely pin the blame of the disorder last month on Reds fans
More than 9,000 Liverpool fans – half of all of those who went to the final against Real Madrid on May 28 – have now filed complaints, which are being collected by Liverpool Football Club.
‘Leaving the stadium was the worst bit,’ Morris, 58, told Sportsmail ahead of the hearing in Paris. ‘We got to the bottom of the underpass. That is where the police were. It left a 400m stretch from there to the train station. Within yards of leaving the underpass these gangs of locals started attacking us.
‘Bottles are raining down on us, they are running in with knives trying to rob anyone, it was the most terrifying thing I have ever been through in my life, especially in a wheelchair
‘You have seen nothing like it. Just gangs everywhere who seemed to see us as human cashpoints.’
Some politicians that Sportsmail had spoken to believe that Liverpool fans were scapegoated
Morris said hundreds were robbed as wave after wave of yobs attacked the helpless fans.
‘The police never left the underpass,’ he recalled. ‘Once we left the…
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Source : dailymail
