Paris Basketball hosts Maccabi Tel-Aviv in the shadow of tensions in the Middle East

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 19^e 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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