Uefa Liverpool final: Fans faced smear campaign, mayor says

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The city's mayor said that a "sinister" campaign was launched against fans of the team after the game.

Fans were tear-gassed and robbed in Paris after the French government blamed supporters and fake tickets.

There were a lot of administrative errors that caused the chaos.

"We now know what happened," said Anderson.

The mayor of the city said that the fans were subjected to a co-ordinated campaign of lies.

Negative stereotypes of the city have to end.

In the report, two Senate committees investigated what went wrong on the night of the game between Real Madrid andLiverpool.

The authorities had wrongly blamed the fans.

Billy Hogan said it had been an incredibly challenging time over the last six weeks.

He said that he was proud of the way that everyone came together.

According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, Steve Rotheram, the regional mayor, claimed that there had been a "concerted attempt to make fans out to be liars".

The problems were caused by a series of mistakes at every level by the French authorities.

Paula Barker wants a French parliamentary inquiry into the incident.

She said that the fans were not to blame for the chaos at the final.

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Dan Carden said that the findings vindicated the fans.

He said that fans were unfairly blamed to distract attention from a number of administrative errors and failures.

Alison McGovern is a Reds fan and is a Member of Parliament.

She said that many people took care of each other in a very stressed situation.

There needs to be a full apology from the French authorities.

Fans had been vindicated, but there was still an issue of lies being persistently repeated, and that's what the group called for.

Fans had experienced a carnival of horrors instead of enjoying a festival of football according to the disabled supporters association.

There were no deaths at the stadium because of the good behavior of the fans.

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