The thieves, who came in gangs, probably used the opportunity to “grope young girls and women”, police officers and spectators report.
Thieves, robbed spectators and sexual assaults characterised the nightmare Saturday night at the Stade de France on the sidelines of Liverpool’s match against Real Madrid. “It’s a blatant thing that happened. I’ve never seen anything like it, groups of North Africans from Barbès, Saint-Denis….. I’ve seen women being grabbed by the chest, they’ve snatched bags away,” asserted a police officer who was present at the security operation. A second officer, who was also on duty on Saturday, confirmed sexual assaults around the stadium. “I’ve heard reports of groping hands, but I didn’t see anything,” a third, more subdued, continued. www.lefigaro.fr
