Inaugurated almost a year ago, with a view to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the Adidas Arena, located at Porte de la Chapelle, in the north of the 19e district of the capital, hosts, Thursday January 16 at 8:30 p.m., a highly tense meeting: its resident club, Paris Basketball, hosts the Israeli team Maccabi Tel-Aviv, as part of the regular season of the Euroleague.
“This sporting event takes place in a particularly tense national and international context resulting from the situation in the Middle East”explained in a press release the Paris police headquarters, a few hours before the announcement by Qatar, Wednesday, of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas after fifteen months of conflict in the Strip. Gaza in the wake of the October 7 attacks.
The National Division for the Fight against Hooliganism, an organization responsible for assessing the threats of excesses linked to sporting events in France, classified this match 4 on a scale of 5, or “high risk” – a first for basketball in the ‘Hexagon. A lesser degree than the arrival of the men’s football team of the Hebrew State, on November 14, 2024, at the Stade de France (Seine-Saint-Denis), which was level 5, but equivalent to that of a poster between the rivals of Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique de Marseille, still in football.
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