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"Mr President, I can be brief about the championship itself: France is a fine European champion and the fear that the situation was going to get out of hand on a massive scale has at any rate been exaggerated despite a number of very regrettable incidents referred to by Mr Van Hecke, involving mainly English supporters
After the final – and the entire debate seems to focus on this part of the championship now, but I suppose, unfortunately, this is how it is – a number of incidents occurred which, in my view, are just not on, and I am mainly referring to the rough treatment of the journalists, which at times was too rough. As I see it, stressed out police and stewards clearly went beyond their remits. But there is still a great deal of uncertainty as to what happened before this and what caused it. What exactly happened to the disabled Italian supporters? Were people informed that so many would turn up? I am saying this as a regular visitor to De Kuip Stadium and I know that there is space for disabled supporters at De Kuip, but not for an unlimited number. Did these handicapped supporters not want to be filmed or were they not allowed to be filmed? These kinds of questions need to be investigated and the Dutch Government has assented to such an investigation. Until such time, until the outcome of the investigation, I will refrain from passing judgement. Accordingly, my group will vote against any part of the resolution in which such a judgement has been passed.
I would strongly urge the Italian delegates, and also the Italian press, but mainly the Italian MEPs to refrain from drawing any comparison with the Heysel tragedy. It is absolutely not worth it. In this way, serious matters which need to be investigated would be called into question. My view is: something happened, which is now being investigated, but I would urge you to keep a sense of perspective."@en1
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