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Champions League: the Senate will hear Darmanin and Oudéa-Castera on Wednesday
Following the incidents that occurred on Saturday at the Stade de France during the champions league final, the Senate will hear the two ministers.
The Senate, dominated by the right-wing opposition, will hear Wednesday the ministers Gérald Darmanin and Amélie Oudéa-Castera on the incidents that occurred Saturday near the Stade de France on the occasion of the final of the Champions League.
The interior and sports ministers will be heard jointly by the Law and Culture Committees, the Senate said in a statement on Monday.
The hearing will take place on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m., said the president of the Culture Committee Laurent Lafon (centrist) in a tweet. It will be open to the press and broadcast on the Senate website.
For Mr. Lafon and the president of the Law Commission François-Noël Buffet (LR), "it is important to ensure that all the lessons of this evening are drawn quickly to reassure the world about the ability of the France to host major events".
Fifteen months before the organization of the Rugby World Cup and less than two years before the holding of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, Saturday's incidents "have given a sad image of the France in the eyes of the world and raise serious concerns about its ability to organize international competitions in optimal conditions of safety", raise the committees.
They wish to "understand the circumstances that led to this situation" and "determine the responsibilities of the various national and international actors concerned".
On Sunday, Senator LR Michel Savin, president of the study group devoted to major sporting events, had indicated that he would ask for "the opening of a parliamentary commission of inquiry".
«At this stage, the Senate will begin by hearing the ministers and "adjust" its decisions according to the answers provided, Buffet told AFP. "If the information does not seem sufficient to us, we will consider going further," he added.
«Obviously the official version of the chaos at the Stade de France given by the government is out of step with the facts. As if it were necessary to hide the responsibility of the usual scum. The Senate will have to participate in the manifestation of the truth by an independent control, "had reacted Sunday on Twitter the leader of the senators LR Bruno Retailleau.
For its part, the CRCE group with a communist majority announced Monday in a statement the upcoming tabling of a motion for a resolution "aimed at pacifying the maintenance of order in France and learning the lessons of the escalation of violence and the disproportionate use of public force by the authorities".
