plainclothes police officers, raid in the stadium… Retailleau details the “exceptional measures” taken to secure the match

Two days before the match between France and Israel at the Stade de France, the Paris police headquarters is strengthening security around the match. And for good reason, this event will be held a week after the violence committed against Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters in Amsterdam. To avoid any excess, against a backdrop of an outbreak of anti-Semitic acts in France (multiplied by four in one year, according to the latest statistics revealed by Beauvau), a large security system is planned.

Guest Tuesday evening on TF1’s “8 p.m.,” Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau praised the “exceptional measures before, during and after the match, near the Stadium, but also in the RER and in public transport”. “We mobilized a lot of law enforcement, all the resources of our law to carry out checks, searches, pat-downs, and compare the names of tickets with identity cards”developed the first cop in France. And to confirm that the elite Raid unit, which has already protected Israeli players since their arrival on national soil, “will be in the Stadium” alongside uniformed police officers “in the corridors” a civilian.

“Zero risk does not exist”

In total, 4,000 police and gendarmerie officers as well as 1,600 security agents will be mobilized for the occasion. If there is no “particular threat”the “zero risk does not exist”recalled the successor of Gérald Darmanin, according to whom the State services will exercise in parallel “very special surveillance in neighborhoods, in places frequented by our compatriots of the Jewish faith.” “It is out of the question to allow the slightest gap to pass” anti-Semitic, he insisted.

After the devastating images in the capital of the Netherlands where several groups of individuals targeted Jewish people in a coordinated manner, according to the Dutch police, Bruno Retailleau hammered home: “There is no question of having this repetition of dramatic events, this manhunt.” While some voices urged the host of Place Beauvau to cancel the sports meeting, to hold it behind closed doors, or even to relocate it to another venue, the Vendéen refuses to “to move back” and of “submit”. Before thundering that “France, the Republic do not submit to sowers of hatred”.