There is chaos outside the Stade de France ahead of the Champions League final.
Thousands of Liverpool fans are finding it difficult to enter the ring after long lines and narrow lanes.
The match is currently postponed for at least 30 minutes.
20,000 Liverpool fans have a ticket to the Champions League final, and another 30,000 are said to be in Paris without a record.
Now many of those who bought expensive tickets are risking losing parts of the match. Huge queues were set up outside the arena. According to several different media outlets, all Liverpool fans were forced to pass through a very narrow corridor before security and ticket control, causing dangerously great irritation and pressure on everyone in the queue.
“lunge”
– Terrible, it’s a bottleneck there where everyone has to pass. I’m here with my 82-year-old father-in-law and we’ve been stressed. Outside the ring, an Associated Press supporter says he’s crazy.
Sportbladet’s reporter for the final match, Joanna Franden, said of the situation on the field before 21.00:
– Just over 20 minutes into the match and there are huge gaps in the stands inside the Stade de France.
Mail on Sunday reporter Rob Draper reports that thousands of fans remain outside the ring with a quarter remaining. They must have been there for over an hour.
“It is impossible to enter”
TV profiler and former King bowler Gary Lineker writes the quarter before kickoff:
“It is impossible to enter the arena. This looks very dangerous. Total chaos.”
The match has since been postponed in rounds. The first quarter, then half an hour and then indefinitely.
UEFA is facing sharp criticism for blaming this message to fans along the same lines.
“Due to the late arrival of the fans to the stadium, the match has been postponed,” he wrote on the stadium.
“I’ve been between the train station and this square since 18.15 and got arrested four times without reason and they don’t have all the gates open,” one supporter wrote on Twitter.
Films from outside the arena show how many Liverpool fans crossed the closed gates and entered the ring. Several reports claim that fans waiting outside the arena were also pepper-sprayed by the police.
Text has been updated!