The French Government have refused to shoulder any of the blame and incredibly pointed the finger at Liverpool FC for the events outside the ground that overshadowed the Champions League Final in Paris on Saturday.
The showpiece match between Jurgen Klopp's side and Real Madrid at the Stade de France was delayed by more than 35 minutes after police tried to hold back people attempting to force their way into the national stadium.
And the accusation is more than two thirds of the briefs presented by over 62,000 Liverpool supporters had been fakes which has led to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to label the scenes as "deeply upsetting".
But French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Liverpool had issued its supporters with paper tickets, and not electronic, which allowed for the possibility of what he described as a "massive fraud on an industrial scale".
"I want to say once again that the decisions taken prevented deaths or serious injury," said Darmanin at an emergency meeting on Monday.
He added: "There was massive fraud at an industrial level and organisation of fake tickets, 70 per cent of tickets were fake tickets coming into the Stade de France.
"More than 2,600 were confirmed by UEFA as non-validated tickets even though they had gone through the first filtering.
"The massive presence of the fake tickets was the issues which meant there were delays, three times the match was delayed.
"We had a long meeting where we had exactly the same interpretation with what happened.
"I would like to express our regret with regard to the organisation of the final because some people were not able to see the whole of the match. I deplore the errors which took place before."
Thousands of ticket holders complained that they were not let in. While television footage showed scary scenes which included images of young men without any football colours on jumping the gates of the stadium and running away from security to get into the match.
Many outside were tear-gassed by riot police.
Now crowd trouble at the 81,000-capacity stadium has become a political issue ahead of next month's parliamentary elections.
France are also set to host the Rugby World Cup in 2023 and the Olympic Games in 2024.
"The images are lamentable, they are disturbing because we can clearly see that we are not prepared for events such as the Olympic Games", said far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon on Sunday.
And his far-right political rival Marine Le Pen dubbed the incident a "humiliation" for France.
