
Lessons for UEFAĪn independent report published in February then found that European football's governing body UEFA bore "primary responsibility". The French authorities initially tried to blame Liverpool supporters and claimed an "industrial scale fraud" of fake tickets was the problem.Ī French Senate enquiry later found that poorly-executed security arrangements were the cause of the mayhem. They want the world to recognise that there were huge mistakes made." "This time that's what people are pushing for. "What we didn't get 34 years ago was accountability," he said. Scarfe called for people to be held responsible for the Paris chaos and said it was "frightening" that the same stadium will be the centrepiece of this year's Rugby World Cup and the upcoming Olympics. "Of course a lot of the people who were there (in Paris) were already at Hillsborough in '89 and it re-triggers obviously," Peter Scarfe, who survived that disaster but watched the Stade de France final on television, told AFP.

Like many Liverpool fans, the experience at the Stade de France brought back memories for Marquis of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which cost the lives of 97 of the club's supporters. I have and will never watch Liverpool FC again." "I no longer have the strength or ability to follow Liverpool FC. "I have been diagnosed as suffering from PTSD ( post-traumatic stress disorder). "It has literally been life-changing," he said.

He says he has not watched Liverpool since, and struggles with panic attacks and in crowded environments. "It was after half-time when it really turned nasty," said Marquis, adding that he felt "the whoosh of a baton that missed my skull by millimetres". John Marquis, a Liverpool fan from Guernsey who had tickets to attend the match with his daughter, never made it inside the stadium. One year on, fans who were there remain traumatised by the experience.

They then fired tear gas towards thousands of supporters locked behind metal fences on the perimeter to the stadium. Yet the occasion was overshadowed by the fiasco outside, with kick-off delayed by 37 minutes as fans struggled to get into France's national stadium after police funnelled them into overcrowded bottlenecks as they approached. The game between Liverpool and Real Madrid at the Stade de France, in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, on May 28, 2022, was won 1-0 by the Spanish team.
