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12.07pm, November 11, 2024
Bruno Retailleau declared on Friday, there was no question of “abdicating in the face of threats of violence and anti-Semitism”. Following the violence on Friday in Amsterdam against Israeli supporters, the France-Israel match this Thursday is threatened, in particular by a boycott by LFI. For his part, Emmanuel Macron will be present to send a message.
Should we fear violence Thursday evening for the France-Israel match? After last Friday’s attacks in Amsterdam against Israeli supporters, Bruno Retailleau ensures that he is taking the necessary security measures for this match to take place. And security should be at the maximum level, because Emmanuel Macron will be present at the Stade de France on Thursday evening. His presence in the stands will be an opportunity to send a message.
The head of state is officially coming to send a message of solidarity to Israeli supporters, according to a close friend of Emmanuel Macron after “the intolerable anti-Semitic acts in Amsterdam”. Emmanuel Macron also wants to make people forget his absence from the march against anti-Semitism last year, in a period where relations between Paris and Tel Aviv have never been so bad since October 7.
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For the French president, it is also important to show his opposition to rebellious France. Because Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party wants to ban this match and in the process, blow on the embers of anti-Zionism. “At the end of the match, we have clear images. Hundreds of Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters who are far-right hooligans, wandering the streets of Amsterdam looking for confrontation. That’s what they’re coming for,” justifies, for example, the rebellious MP Raphaël Arnaud. A version totally denied by the statements of the Dutch Prime Minister.
According to information from Europe 1, 4,000 police and gendarmes will be mobilized on Thursday for France-Israel. The men of the Raid will accompany the Israeli players present in France from this Monday.
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