A total of 4,000 police officers and gendarmes will be mobilized on Thursday for the “high risk” France-Israel match at the Stade de France, in Saint-Denis, Paris police prefect Laurent Nuñez announced this Sunday. Such a deployment of law enforcement corresponds to an “extremely reinforced system”, “very unusual”, for an international match, added the police prefect on BFMTV.
In public transport and… the stadium
The 4,000 police forces will be deployed around and, rarely, in the stadium, as well as on public transport and throughout Paris. Around 1,600 security agents will also be mobilized at the Stade de France and the Raid, the elite unit of the National Police, will be engaged for the security of the Israel team, continued Laurent Nuñez.
“It will be a high-risk match,” he said, in “a very tense geopolitical context” and a week after violence in Amsterdam between groups of individuals and supporters of Maccabi Tel-Aviv who sparked international condemnation.
“We will not tolerate any excesses or disturbances to public order,” declared the police prefect, adding that controls to enter the stadium would be “extremely reinforced” but that the police had not “requested that “there is a limited capacity” in the stadium for this League of Nations meeting.
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