The French police tear-gassed Liverpool players who flocked to the stadium, but who could not get in to see their team play. A handful of Liverpool players were either beaten up or robbed by local gangs too. The video surveillance footage of the attacks was deleted.  In a report by the French Senate's culture commission titled as "an inevitable fiasco", the commission's co-president, Laurent Lafon outlined a series of failings ahead of the match, saying that authorities acted on their own plans without much coordination and that there had been "failures" both "in the execution" and in the "preparation" of the event. Gérald Darmanin, the Interior Minister of France had initially blamed Liverpool fans with fake tickets for the chaotic scenes claiming that about 35,000 supporters of the English club had turned up at the Stade de France where the UEFA Champions League final was being held with counterfeit or unmarked tickets.

Laurent Lafon now says that it is not because there were Liverpool supporters who accompanied their team that the event went badly. Francois Noël Buffet, the report's other co-president, called Darmanin's initial analysis "partial and imprecise" which "did not correspond to the truth". The report said; "It is unfair to have sought to blame Liverpool fans for the disturbances, as the interior minister did in order to divert attention from the inability of the state to adequately manage the crowds present and to curb the action of several hundred violent and coordinated offenders." 

One of the main Liverpool fans' groups, Spirit of Shankly, welcomed the report, while still calling for an apology from the French government. The group said; "The Senate has sent a clear message of support to those supporters who attended the match, calling it a 'fiasco' and stating: 'It was not you who caused the problems at Stade de France. Spirit of Shankly would like to thank the Senate both for welcoming the testimonies of fans and consequently vindicating them from any responsibility. However, there remains the issue of lies being persistently repeated." France's Interior Minister has apologized for the "disproportionate" use of tear gas but continued to blame Liverpool fans. 

The report by the lawmakers on the chaotic scenes also made 15 recommendations to avoid similar problems in the future, including requiring event organizers to retain video surveillance images for one month afterward; and making it compulsory to use forgery-proof tickets. The French upper house said that even if there were duplicate tickets being used by the tens of thousands of supporters who showed up, "this failure is due to the decisions taken by the Paris police prefecture." France is also due to host the 2023 Rugby World Cup and the 2024 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. The report says the "multiple difficulties" encountered at the Stade de France "have seriously questioned France's capacity to organize major sporting events".