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Champions League Final: Post-match violence shakes up French election race

A week has gone by but the stadium "fiasco" remains a hot issue in France, with new and harrowing accounts about the breakdown in law and order when the match had come to an end.

Among Liverpool fans whose translated testimony has been circulating widely on social media is UFC champion Paddy Pimblett, who said he had "never been so scared in my life … as when I came out of that ground on Saturday night".

"At least when you are in a cage it is one against one," the mixed martial artist said.

"There were groups of 30 men, running around in big packs.