The France-Israel match at the Stade de France, which is to take place on November 14, is “a high-risk match” according to Laurent Nuñez, Paris police prefect, who announced the mobilization of 4,000 police officers for the occasion this Thursday.
Such a deployment of law enforcement corresponds to an “extremely reinforced system”, “very unusual”, for an international match, added the police prefect on BFM TV.
“We will not tolerate any excesses or disturbances to public order”
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 clashes in Amsterdam between supporters of Ajax Amsterdam and Maccabi Tel-Aviv which sparked international condemnations.
“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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