Ils ont failli par excès et par défaut : défaut d'activité, de renseignement et de prévention ; excès de répression dans le chef de certaines unités des forces de l'ordre, mais il y a eu des actes de répression qui pouvaient et devaient être évités.
Their endeavours were both excessive and inadequate: inadequate in that their information activities, intelligence and preventive protection measures did not suffice, and excessive in terms of the crowd control measures employed by certain sections of the police force; this was true only of certain sections of the police force but, regrettably, methods of crowd control were used which could and should have been avoided.