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Real Madrid supporters have recounted the same horror stories from the Stade de France as their Liverpool counterparts, suggesting only the patience of fans prevented multiple deaths.
They have spoken of the same bottleneck security checkpoints at the outer security ring of the stadium with local thugs creating crushes so they could pickpocket fans, and police responding with arbitrary pepper-spraying.
There have also been claims there were no police at the turnstiles where thieves, who had jumped gates on the outer ring, were free to snatch tickets and enter the stadium.
Real Madrid supporters have recounted the same horror stories from the Stade de France as their Liverpool counterparts, suggesting only the patience of fans prevented multiple deaths
They have spoken of the same bottleneck security checkpoints with local thugs creating crushes so they could pickpocket fans, and police responding with arbitrary pepper-spraying
Speaking to Spain’s Radio Cope, Gabriel Saez, the president of fitness company GO fit who was at the game with his wife and five children, said: ‘We are lucky to be talking about Madrid’s victory and not a tragedy. There were no signs to say where the entrances were.
‘We followed other supporters to the only place you could advance to the stadium. It was a bottleneck and imagine the scene: I have children of eight, 12, 15, 20 and 24 years. In this flood of people I said to my wife, ‘Lets get out of here’, because any sort of trouble in that situation and there would have been deaths.
‘But we couldn’t move so we encircled our youngest. There were two police vans making the bottleneck, limiting the space where only five at a time were allowed to pass.
‘They frisked you and checked you had a ticket and then let you pass. There were moments when they were firing pepper spray towards people.
‘The English fans have a bad reputation, but I never saw any problems. They were showing a lot of patience. There are a lot of gates to…
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Source : dailymail
