Monsieur Darmanin, a former mayor of Tourcoing on the Belgian border, initially blamed large numbers of Liverpool fans travelling with counterfeit tickets which they thought they could use to jib their way into the Stade de France. His estimates were so grotesquely high β 30, to 40, β as to cast doubt on his judgement immediately.
Let us hope that their budgetary projections do not have a similar back-of-the-Gauloises-packet feel to the numbers. The answer is yes. Am I partly responsible? Of course, I readily apologise towards everyone who suffered from this bad management of the event. While M. This is not going to do as an explanation, or as an apology.
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