The Minister of Sports, Youth and Community Life, Gil Avérous, was the guest of La Grande interview. At the microphone of Sonia Mabrouk, he returned to the organization of the France-Israel match this Thursday and ensures that he is “confident” about the smooth running of the event.
Will the France-Israel match take place as planned? After the anti-Semitic attacks in Amsterdam last week against Israeli supporters, security for this League of Nations meeting is at its highest. Nearly 4,000 police officers and gendarmes will be mobilized to ensure the security of the match which will take place at the Stade de France this Thursday.
Invited this Wednesday on the set of La Grande interview, the Minister of Sports Gil Avérous wants to be confident that the event will take place, despite the words of the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, who assures that “zero risk does not does not exist.”
“A unifying (…) sporting event”
“No event can be done without risk at the moment. But we have this habit in France of organizing major events and putting in place security measures that are adapted,” he assures us on the microphone of Europe 1. “So yes, I am confident that this Thursday, we will be able to come and watch a football match above all, a sporting event which is a unifying event where we can go as a family with our friends in complete safety”, he assures.
But he believes that holding the match is above all “a sporting event rather than a marker of the fight against anti-Semitism. But the fact of remaining in place, indeed, of not giving in, of not retreating, of not being intimidated, is to demonstrate to those who want to scare, who want to lead a fight against a category of the population, that the French State will oppose them with determination”, he concludes.
