UEFA admits ticketing system is so bad it can be brought down by a faulty pen

The pre-filter ticket check had been taking place away from the stadium underneath an overcrowded flyover, where fans waited for over an hour in 25 degree heat without access to water or toilet facilities. Eventually, with the risk of loss of life clear, the pre-filter ticket checks were abandoned in order to ease the pressure of dangerous crushes the faulty pens had caused.

‘If you arrived without bluetooth active at the turnstiles then your QR code was not activated,’ Kallen said, again demonstrating that fans with real tickets were rejected at the turnstiles simply because of bluetooth.In early senate hearings, French interior minister Gérald Darmanin and Paris chief of police Didier Lallement have been ridiculed for suggesting that up to 40,000 Liverpool supporters without tickets or with forgeries attempted to enter the Stade de France.

The 2,600 is highly contestable though, with Kallen himself having demonstrated how valid paper and digital tickets were counted as fakes because of UEFA’s problems with broken pens and bluetooth. Towards the end of the hearing, one of the senators present chastised Kallen for his performance, imploring him to discuss issues major organisational errors from UEFA and the French authorities. ‘Counterfeit tickets were not the main problem,’ the senator said.

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