Antoine Bienvault // Photo credit: Attila KISBENEDEK / AFP
07h34, 09 November 2024
Despite the violence which broke out on Thursday November 7 in Amsterdam against Israeli supporters of the Maccabi Tel-Aviv club, the France-Israel League of Nations meeting will take place at the Stade de France, announced the Minister of the Interior. In order to best anticipate the event, the security system will be adapted.
The Nations League match which will be held on Thursday at the Stade de France. Out of the question of relocating the meeting, said the Minister of the Interior yesterday. The authorities say they are ready to ensure the safety of spectators, as explained by Jean Christophe Jean-Christophe, vice national secretary of the Police Unit union. 15 to 20,000 spectators are expected for this France-Israel match. This is the lowest attendance in history for a Blues match.
A large police force
At the microphone of Europe 1, Jean-Christophe Calvi describes a doubly reinforced security system: “We have 26 requests for a mobile force unit, which is still enormous. We have around ten CRS companies plus mobile gendarmes “There will be a CRS company that will be on duty to protect the Israeli team at the hotel,” he explains, recalling that there was originally only to be half of them. ‘a company to protect the hotel. “Today, we have grown to an entire company.”
“In fact, we are raising the level which was already quite high. We are putting the resources into it. So we will indeed have to, upstream, properly supervise the supporters,” he says. The protection of Israeli supporters is, moreover, at the heart of the system: “We will plan plans so that the police can be as close as possible to Israeli supporters and escort them to the Stade de France so that they can support their team in complete safety. tranquility and safety.
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