French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau ruled out changes to the organization of the football match between the French and Israeli national teams scheduled for next week following the violent incidents recorded Thursday evening in Amsterdam and promised to strengthen measures security.
Dozens of people were arrested after clashes at the end of a Europa League match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax Amsterdam. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced “anti-Semitic attacks,” a term with which his Dutch counterpart Dick Schoof also agrees.
The coordinator of La Francia Insumisa (LFI), Manuel Bompard, is now focusing on next Thursday's match at the Stade de France in Paris for the Nations League, to demand its cancellation. In an interview with CNews, he denounced “unacceptable violations of international law” by Israel in the Middle East.
However, Retailleau determined that there was no possibility of cancellation or transfer of the match. “I do not accept it: France is not backing down because that would imply abdicating in the face of threats of violence and anti-Semitism,” declared the minister on his social network X account.
Retailleau announced that he had asked the police prefect, Laurent Nuñez, to adopt all the “necessary” security measures so that the match could take place without problem, “as usual”.
For her part, far-right leader Marine Le Pen warned that “hatred against Jews is spreading like wildfire in Europe,” which she attributes to the “inflammatory rhetoric of the far left corrupted by Islamist ideology” and an “irresponsible” policy. speech.
“It is no longer enough to condemn disgusting acts, we must be implacable in the face of this explosion of anti-Semitic violence which desecrates and dishonors Europe,” he also said on social networks.
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