An exceptional security system for a high-risk France-Israel match this Thursday evening, November 14. According to information from RTL, the elite unit of the BRI and will be mobilized the evening of the match in support of the Raid and other security forces. Still according to our information, the two intervention units of the national police will have the mission of securing the movement of Israeli athletes, the surroundings of the stadium and the streets of Paris with specific missions which are being defined. Around the Stade de France, 2,500 police officers and gendarmes will be mobilized.
In total, these are 4,000 agents who will be employedparticularly to secure strategic locations in the capital, such as places of worship, train stations or public transport. A device, which could still be adapted by Thursday.
Around 1,600 security agents will also be mobilized at the Stade de France by the French Football Federation (FFF). Around 1,200 or 1,300 are usually there “for France’s matches when it is a sold-out stadium”, said police prefect Laurent Nuñez on BFMTV last Sunday. The FFF estimated the number of tickets sold for the match at “around 20,000”, very far from the 80,000 places available at the Stade de France, specifying that the ticket office is still open.
This match will be held a week after violence in Amsterdam between groups of individuals and Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters on the sidelines of an Ajax-Tel Aviv football match on November 7. On Sunday evening, Israeli authorities called on their citizens not to go to the match and not to “highlight recognizable Israeli or Jewish signs”.
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