Due to the current context, the match between Paris and Tel Aviv in the Euroleague on Thursday evening in the capital worries the authorities.
The meeting between Paris Basketball and Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Euroleague of basketball on Thursday was classified as high risk by the national division for the fight against hooliganism (DNLH), we learned on Tuesday from a source with knowledge of the case.
The match, counting for the 22nd day of the prestigious European Cup, was classified as risk level 4 on a scale of 1 to 5. The meeting is the subject of great attention in view of the situation in the Middle East , marked by the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza which began in October 2023.
The police headquarters very attentive to this meeting
In a decree published Tuesday, the police headquarters of the city of Paris indicated that the match “is likely to constitute a privileged and symbolic target for acts of a terrorist nature”in a “current context of very high threat”.
On December 18, the Champions League basketball match in Nanterre against Hapoël Holon was briefly interrupted when a spectator entered the court, brandishing a Palestinian flag. This intrusion notably led to scuffles among the public. Seven people, including the spectator concerned, were arrested.
A little earlier in November, the Nations League football match between France and Israel at the Stade de France gave rise to an exceptional security system, with 4,000 police and gendarmes deployed around it, within the Saint-Denis grounds. or even in Parisian public transport.
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