"I'll never set foot in Paris again": still traumatized, these Reds fans will miss PSG-Liverpool
On May 28, 2022, during the Champions League final between their team and Real Madrid at the Stade de France, thousands of Liverpool supporters experienced an evening of violence before and after the match. Three years later, they remain scarred and some refuse to return to the French capital.
By Marion Canu and Sébastien NietoNothing will change their minds. Neither the passing of time, nor the postcard images left by the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. About three years after the serious incidents – police violence, racketeering – that marred the 2022 Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid (0-1), the Reds fans are not jumping for joy before the next European trip: to Paris, Wednesday March 5, for a shock against PSG in the round of 16 of a competition already won 6 times (1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, 2005, 2019).
There were more than 50,000 of them on May 28, 2022, who traveled to the French capital from England. Either to sit in the stands of the Stade de France, or to see life in red in the streets of Paris up to the huge fan zone planned on the Cours de Vincennes. A radiant day in perspective, concluded by a nightmare still very much present in the minds of fans interviewed in recent hours. "I even hate going through Charles-de-Gaulle airport," says a Reds season ticket holder. "I will never set foot in this city again."
Le Parisien
