Champions League Final: Harrowing accounts of post-match violence spark debate

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The stadium "fiasco" is still a hot issue in France, with new and harrowing accounts about the breakdown in law and order when the match had ended.

UFC champion Paddy Pimblett said he had never been so scared in his life when he came out of that ground.

When you are in a cage, it's one against one.

There were large groups of men running. Some of them had weapons. The people were pinned to the floor and their watches were taken.

People had their handbags taken off when the thieves pulled the bag from them and sliced the strap with a knife.

I can't compare it to the movie The Purge, where you can do what you want for 12 hours. There was no law.

Murder, rape, and other crimes are decriminalised for half a day in The Purge.

Real Madrid said yesterday that its fans had been left "helpless and defenceless" by the violence against them.

Several of our supporters were mugged. Some people had to go to the hospital because of their injuries.

The head of a French police union said his colleagues had never seen something like it.

The ones jumping through the turnstiles were mostly locals. Minors, foreigners, violent types from God know where. The Synergie-officiers told Le Figaro that everything had changed.

When the police arrived, they were attacking women, children, old people and merging back into the crowd. Some people had their clothes taken.

The post- match violence threatens to be an issue in parliamentary elections that will be held in two rounds from next weekend.

The real story was the eruption of more banlieue-style thuggery from the high-immigration areas, not the failures of organization.

The government's refusal to call this out for fear of alienating centre- left opinion by stigmatising the people of the Paris suburbs was more outrageous.

The debacle is being used by Marine Le Pen to galvanise her electorate.

She said that France has offered up a spectacle. There is a zone of lawlessness.

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Marine Le Pen's National Rally isn't the main threat to the election. There is a new alliance behind the radical Jean-Luc Mélenchan.

If the effect of the Stade de France is to draw disaffected right-wing voters away from the Macron camp, then the president'.

The results will be available on June 19.