The French Interior Ministry said 68 people were arrested and 39 detained by police on Saturday night in Paris, on the sidelines of the Champions League final, due to unrest in the Stade de France stadium in the suburbs. Saint Denis.

And in a rare event for a match of this stature, the start of the final, which Real Madrid beat Liverpool 1-0, was delayed by 36 minutes due to tensions outside the stadium.

Several fans tried to climb over the fence to force their way inside. The police confronted the intruders and sometimes used tear gas.

Some ticket holders were unable to enter the stadium until the end of the first half of the match.

A statement from the Paris police said that before the match, “many fans without tickets or holders of fake tickets blocked access to the Stade de France at the level of the outer security perimeter.”

In a social media statement, Home Secretary Gerald Darmannan blamed “thousands of British fans without tickets or with fake tickets who tried to storm” the stadium.

And the European Football Association Vifa announced that the delay of the match was due to “security issues” related to the “late arrival of fans” at the stadium, and later it turned out that the reason for the crowd at the entrances to the Stadium Stadium was the result of the fact that the holders of fake tickets expressed their sympathy.

The police added that the evacuation of two separate “fan areas” – for Real Madrid fans in Saint-Denis and Liverpool in the east of Paris – took place without major incidents.

A total of 238 people were detained by various emergency services throughout the day due to “relative emergencies” such as drunkenness or minor accidents, including damage from tear gas, a Paris fire brigade spokesman told AFP.