Despite the context, they wanted to come and support their team. Between 100 and 150 Israeli supporters are expected, according to several consistent sources, in the parking lot dedicated to opposing supporters at the Stade de France to follow the Nations League meeting between France and Israel on Thursday evening (8:45 p.m.). Some of them, the exact proportion of whom we do not know, travel from the Hebrew State for the occasion.
These supporters of the selection, 81st in the world ranking, have decided to ignore the recommendations of the Israeli authorities. The National Security Council, which reports to the Prime Minister's office, recommended on Sunday that nationals of this Middle Eastern country avoid going to the meeting. A position taken after the attacks on Maccabi Tel-Aviv supporters Thursday evening in Amsterdam.
This group of “official” supporters, who will be permanently supervised by the police, will take place in a park where 3,500 seats are dedicated to visitors. It will therefore be very sparse, like the Stade de France as a whole. If the rate of ticket sales has increased in recent days, the French Football Federation expects a maximum attendance of 20,000 people, in an enclosure with a capacity of 80,000, for this match played in a very secure security context. heavy.
Only supporters who have purchased tickets through the Israeli federation will sit in this area of the stadium. But this will not prevent the presence of other supporters of this selection elsewhere in the Stade de France. Nothing prevents supporters based in France from purchasing their tickets via traditional sales channels. They, like the spectators who will come to support the Blues, will not be able to take their place in the front rows of the enclosure, access being prohibited to hinder potential attempts at intrusion onto the pitch.
2,500 police officers and gendarmes will be deployed around the Stade de France for the occasion, while the federation has mobilized 1,400 stewards inside. 1,500 members of the police will be responsible for monitoring public transport and several sectors in Paris.
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