At a time when the vandalism of some fans across Brazil has shared the spotlight with the party in the stands and with the game itself, the French Senate has exonerated the crowd that most deals with the feeling of guilt in the world in the last 40 years, that of the Liverpool.
This week, the French Senate concluded that Liverpool fans were unfairly blamed for incidents ahead of the most recent Champions League final in May, when the English side lost to Real Madrid at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis.
As a reminder, many fans (mostly French) invaded the stadium without tickets (as happened this Wednesday at Maracanã, in Flamengo vs Atlético Mineiro) while part of Liverpool fans with tickets could not enter, were squeezed through the bars and received tear gas. of the French police.
Who initially blamed the English fans was the Minister of the Interior of France, Gérald Darmanin, in statements that revealed an almost xenophobic feeling of the politician. After the final at the Stade de France, he even blamed German coach Jürgen Klopp for encouraging fans to travel to the final venue, even without tickets.
The report concluded that there had been a series of failures by the French authorities to contain criminals and robbers in the vicinity of the stadium, and that the minister had tried to “deflect attention from the State’s inability to manage the crowd present”.
In the case of France, the episode is a warning sign for those who will soon have to deal with a lot more fans, from a lot more countries, with the 2024 Olympic Games being disputed in the capital, Paris. Before that, the country also hosted the Rugby World Cup — an event as gigantic as a football Cup.
In the case of Liverpool fans, the conclusion of innocence comes with a sense of relief for someone dealing with guilt almost as much as a Catholic priest in a confessional. In 1989, in a game that had an overcrowding problem, 96 fans died when they were pushed against the fence or trampled underfoot in an FA Cup match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. at Hillsborough Stadium.
At the time, like the French minister, the British government blamed Liverpool fans for the tragedy. But the injustice took more than two months to correct. It took the British government 27 years to conclude that there was state negligence that day and that fans did not contribute to the chaos. The dead are remembered and honored to this day by the club.
The Hillsborough tragedy was instrumental in the restructuring of the league in the country and the modernization of stadiums, which culminated in the creation of the Premier League, today the biggest football league in the world.
Returning to Brazil, maybe the CBF is waiting for a tragedy to change something in football, and it is close. It could be a fan invading the field to settle the score with a rival player, it could be a rock hitting an athlete on the bus, it could be a crowd trampled when invading a stadium. See you
Update – Round 38
We’re close to halfway through the Brazilian, but we’ve already reached half of losses in the championship after the resignation of Argentine Fabián Bustos, from Santos. But foreigners still command the survivors’ account on the eve of round 17: Brazilians 4 x 6 Foreigners.
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