While violent clashes broke out between Israeli and Dutch supporters on Thursday, next Thursday's match between France and Israel in Saint-Denis presents many risks. Many supporters will not go to the stadium for fear of excesses.
With a tight throat, Nicolas admits, given the violence of the attacks committed in Amsterdam, he will not go to the Stade de France on Thursday evening to attend the match between France and Israel. This meeting is described as the most important event to secure since the Olympics, according to RMC Sport sources.
“I am disgusted. This is what I fear, that my children will be mishandled, hit, insulted,” he explains.
“There is no question that today, just because we are Jews in France, going to see a football match, I find myself in the position of victim,” adds this father. He is against relocation which was once mentioned. The Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau wanted to be firm and did not consider the idea of relocation. The elected LR “does not accept it” because it would amount to “abdicating in the face of threats of violence and in the face of anti-Semitism”.
Nicolas, “would like this match to take place in the best conditions. We are deprived of these moments which can be pleasant moments”, he laments.
Saïd will be in the stands, even if two of his friends have also backed out. “We must not hide our faces, it is extremely tense,” he admits. But, for his safety, he will make arrangements: “I'm afraid of excesses in transport. We're going to take a VTC.”
More than 2,500 law enforcement officers
To avoid excesses, shops, bars and restaurants around the stadium will close in the afternoon. “The Stade de France is a more complicated place to secure than a certain number of venues elsewhere due to the three transport stations and the flow of people which extends over several hundred meters,” explains Mathieu Zagrodski, specialist researcher. internal security issues.
The police force is very important. 2,500 police officers and gendarmes are mobilized while for a “tense” match between OM and PSG, there are around 600 law enforcement agents deployed in general.
For this high-risk match, fewer than 20,000 seats were sold, which represents only a quarter of the total capacity of the Stade de France.
