Lmao. The guardian are seriously suggesting that the mere presence of police is a problem:
>Yet the ministers’ tone and approach gave the game away. The people who attended a sporting event were to be policed as a grave problem first and foremost. This is the essence of how many people who attend football matches are treated. The enemy, from the outset.
And there’s absolutely no mention of the roaming gangs and other violent locals who actually instigated the violence-
>”There were groups of 30 men, running around in big packs. Some of them had weapons: machetes, knives, bars and bats. People were being pinned to the floor and having their watches taken.
>”I saw people having their handbags taken off them, when [the thieves] would pull the bag from them and then slice the [strap] with a knife.
>”The only thing I can compare it to is something like the film The Purge – where you can do what you like for 12 hours. There were no laws.”
While there were obviously serious failures from UEFA, the French authorities and police, this article is just anti-police agendapushing, not a serious attempt to discuss these failures.
Onlyfans prevents another disaster. And everyone said they were just dumb skanks who should “get real jobs.”
I was at the rugby equivalent of the Champions League Final, it was in Marseille earlier the same day with 60,000 fans and there were absolutely no problems. There was a reasonable police presence but they were basically just standing around and managing the traffic. It was so bizarre to see what was happening at the football.
The worse thing about that final was Madrid winning by playing like Burnley
I thought it was very interesting that the French minister apologised for fans being “inconvenienced” for being pepper-sprayed by French police. If the police had been pepper-sprayed by fans then the French police would have been assaulted, not inconvenienced.
This isn’t explicit to just French police for this final. Regular match days in Britain are just as terrifying for fans. We have this problem in Scotland where out of control police look for any reason to baton you or drag you off. I’ve seen several times police on horseback charge supporters walking in a crowd to the game peacefully. All due to the crowd being too large. It is the militarization of policing on such days and the crowd are the enemy.
So this isn’t just a French police matter but every police force and Brit forces are equally as bad, with Police Scotland being the most deviant.
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Lmao. The guardian are seriously suggesting that the mere presence of police is a problem:
>Yet the ministers’ tone and approach gave the game away. The people who attended a sporting event were to be policed as a grave problem first and foremost. This is the essence of how many people who attend football matches are treated. The enemy, from the outset.
And there’s absolutely no mention of the roaming gangs and other violent locals who actually instigated the violence-
>”There were groups of 30 men, running around in big packs. Some of them had weapons: machetes, knives, bars and bats. People were being pinned to the floor and having their watches taken.
>”I saw people having their handbags taken off them, when [the thieves] would pull the bag from them and then slice the [strap] with a knife.
>”The only thing I can compare it to is something like the film The Purge – where you can do what you like for 12 hours. There were no laws.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61685718
While there were obviously serious failures from UEFA, the French authorities and police, this article is just anti-police agendapushing, not a serious attempt to discuss these failures.
Onlyfans prevents another disaster. And everyone said they were just dumb skanks who should “get real jobs.”
I was at the rugby equivalent of the Champions League Final, it was in Marseille earlier the same day with 60,000 fans and there were absolutely no problems. There was a reasonable police presence but they were basically just standing around and managing the traffic. It was so bizarre to see what was happening at the football.
The worse thing about that final was Madrid winning by playing like Burnley
I thought it was very interesting that the French minister apologised for fans being “inconvenienced” for being pepper-sprayed by French police. If the police had been pepper-sprayed by fans then the French police would have been assaulted, not inconvenienced.
This isn’t explicit to just French police for this final. Regular match days in Britain are just as terrifying for fans. We have this problem in Scotland where out of control police look for any reason to baton you or drag you off. I’ve seen several times police on horseback charge supporters walking in a crowd to the game peacefully. All due to the crowd being too large. It is the militarization of policing on such days and the crowd are the enemy.
So this isn’t just a French police matter but every police force and Brit forces are equally as bad, with Police Scotland being the most deviant.