The inability of 2,000 soldiers to hold the stadium against an attack by a few hundred militants appeared to reflect the security forces' struggle to subdue the militants, who are taking advantage of the security vacuum in the country.
This area is less defensible than Rio stadiums to an attack, and as France knows, stadiums difficult to defend.
He wants to be entertained in his own stadium, and with an attacking quartet of Fernando Torres served by the talents of a Spaniard, Juan Mata, a Belgian, Eden Hazard, and a Brazilian, Oscar, he is getting it.
An attack on a marathon is, in some ways, more devastating than an attack on a stadium; you're hitting something special but also something very quotidian.
Just before kickoff, Roma fans throwing rocks and bottles fought with the police outside the stadium and attacked an Associated Press Television News crew, the police said.
Molins said a discarded cellphone helped identify safe houses used by attackers to plan Friday's coordinated assaults, which killed 129 people and wounded more than 350 in a series of attacks at a stadium, a concert hall and restaurants across Paris.
For Aurélie Filippetti, Hollande's former culture minister, the president has squandered the "national unity" he inherited in November, after terrorists affiliated with the Islamic State killed 130 and injured hundreds more in a series of coordinated attacks on a stadium, a concert hall and cafes across Paris.
The pledge to scrutinise Qatar's committment to worker welfare from the Swiss-based body came as the wage rates paid to workers on the Al Wakrah stadium were attacked as "deplorable" and "tainting football" by a series of senior British politicians.
Whereas the Sharks were embracing the sizzling energy emanating through the stadium, Melbourne's attack seemed limp.
'Enough is enough!': Stadium attack anger Jump to media player The BBC's Mark Lowen witnesses the toll that a string of deadly attacks - most recently on a football stadium - have taken on Turkish people.
