My EDM tabled: ‘Treatment of Liverpool fans at the 2022 Champions League Final in Paris’
My Early Day Motion submitted to Parliament this week reads:
“That this House condemns the deeply disturbing treatment by French police of Liverpool fans outside Stade de France at the Champions League Final in Paris; notes catastrophic failures in stadium management by UEFA and French authorities which threatened the lives and wellbeing of supporters; notes the grossly inadequate funnelling on approach to the stadium; notes the inadequacy of numbers of trained stewards on entry turnstiles and access through said turnstiles; condemns indiscriminate pepper-spraying and tear-gassing of men, women and children by French police; recognises Liverpool fans arrived at Stade de France up to three and a half hours before kick-off and notes Merseyside Police evidence that “the vast majority of fans behaved in an exemplary manner, arriving at turnstiles early and queuing as directed”; insists UEFA holds an independent investigation into matchday failures in co-ordination with Merseyside Police, Liverpool Football Club and Spirit of Shankly; demands a public retraction and apology from UEFA and French authorities for announcing on boards inside the stadium and to a global TV audience that the delay to kick-off was caused by Liverpool fans arriving at the stadium late and without tickets when this was categorically not true; demands French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin and French sports minister Amelie Oudea-Cast publicly retract and apologise for their appalling and unsubstantiated comments about Liverpool fans made since the match; condemns the life threatening bottleneck and crush Liverpool fans were forced into prior to kick-off, insists reports of French people entering the stadium without tickets and Liverpool and Real Madrid fans being pick-pocketed and mugged near to the stadium are fully investigated.”
You can view the EDM and who has signed it online at: Treatment of Liverpool fans at the 2022 Champions League Final in Paris - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament