French police under spotlight over Liverpool fans’ treatment

Crowd control tactics at Champions League final highlight rift between law officers and public in France

Television images of Liverpool fans being casually teargassed and pepper-sprayed at the Stade de France before Saturday's chaotic Champions League final have - not for the first time - trained a spotlight on France's policing methods.

Organisations from Amnesty International to the UN's high commissioner for human rights have criticised France's crowd control tactics, with Human Rights Watch detailing the extensive physical injuries caused by weapons from truncheons to teargas grenades, rubber bullets and larger flash-ball" rubber pellets on peaceful citizens in recent years.