The Mail on Sunday can reveal how close the chaotic scenes at the Champions League final and the breakdown of law and order came to causing fatalities after compiling a damning dossier of evidence on the controversial night in Paris.
Liverpool supporters caught up in huge crushes outside the Stade de France last Saturday only avoided serious injury because the memory of the Hillsborough disaster prompted them to act with unusual caution, our investigation has been told by crowd control experts.
This newspaper has also established the French police still do not consider there was anything unusual about their tactics of kettling supporters into narrow gaps, even though that technique has been described as a death trap by one of the UK's leading scientists on crowd dynamics.