BBC reporter pepper-sprayed during Champions League final queuing chaos
dailyrecord.co.ukA BBC reporter was pepper-sprayed outside the Stade de France as chaos irrupted before the Champion's League final in Paris tonight.
Kick-off was delayed by over 30 minutes until 20.36 as thousands of fans struggled to get inside the stadium. Supporters were faced with huge queues after the Liverpool team bus was caught up in traffic.A bottle neck of fans built up on the streets outside the stadium on the outskirts of Paris, with many sharing photographs of locked gates of the stadium.
BBC Journalist Nick Parrott was outside the ground in a personal capacity and had been caught up in the chaos, the Mirror reports.He told BBC Radio 5 Live: "I have just been pepper-sprayed for the first time in my life.
I have been to the Champions League final before and I have never been pepper-sprayed before."I was outside Gate Y which has been opening and closing repeatedly over the last hour and a half but nobody has been going through.
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