France is preparing to host Israel, a high-risk meeting on November 14 at the Stade de France counting for the Football Nations League, a week after clashes between supporters of Ajax Amsterdam and Maccabi Tel-Aviv during a Europa League match.
Despite these clashes in the Netherlands, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau refused to relocate the meeting. “ France is not backing down, because that would amount to abdicating in the face of threats of violence and anti-Semitism “, he wrote Friday on X. “ At my request, the police prefect Laurent Nunez is making the necessary security arrangements for this match to take place at the Stade de France, as usual.. “, he added
There is no no direct threat to the match » France-Israel, a police source confirmed on Thursday. To avoid any overflow, security in and around the Stade de France and its 80,000 seats should be reinforced, with plainclothes police officers in the bays of the Dionysian enclosure.
Twenty-six companies, or around 2,500 mobile gendarmes or police officers, should be requisitioned for this meeting and the hotel where the Israeli selection will stay will be under surveillance. CRS companies will also be distributed throughout the capital, another police source told AFP.
The Minister responsible for Europe Benjamin Haddad in any case urged on Friday not to show “ no weakness, no cowardice in the face of anti-Semitism » after the violence in Amsterdam.
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