Irish Examiner view: Ineptitude of police a concern

Champions League recriminations
Police watch the crowd during the Uefa Champions League final at the Stade de France, Paris. The footage of the utter chaos outside the Stade de France has already been destroyed. Picture: Nick Potts/PA

Police watch the crowd during the Uefa Champions League final at the Stade de France, Paris. The footage of the utter chaos outside the Stade de France has already been destroyed. Picture: Nick Potts/PA

One of the many novels by the prolific French thriller writer Georges Simenon was called Maigret Loses His Temper.

What he would have made of the ineptitude of the police actions on the night of the Champions League final in Paris, and the subsequent investigation which is meant to be taking place into what went so badly wrong, doesn’t bear thinking about.

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