The announcement by Erwan Le Prévost, director of institutional relations at the French Football Association, angered members of a Senate committee investigating the pandemonium surrounding the match between Liverpool and Real Madrid. Le Prévost said the images showed “very violent” scenes in which officials blamed Liverpool fans for trying to enter the Stade de France without tickets or with fake tickets. However, he said he could not offer CCTV images to support the allegations, which have met with widespread skepticism in Britain and France. He said CCTV footage was “automatically destroyed” inside
