The Minister of the Interior asks the prefects for increased vigilance before and after the match at the Stade de France between France and Israel.
A France-Israel match under high tension. Before the football match Thursday at the Stade de France, the Minister of the Interior asked the prefects for increased vigilance.
In a telegram dated Tuesday, November 12 that BFMTV was able to consult, the Minister of the Interior requests in particular surveillance of the usual sites of the Jewish community likely to constitute targets before, during and after the sporting event.
Bruno Retailleau also asks the prefects to monitor developments in the situation in Paris and possible disturbances to public order which could give rise to reactions in the territories: protest demonstrations against this sporting event, damage or offensive tags, attacks on supporters Israel team premises, etc.
Public order disturbances
The minister draws the attention of state agents to any person likely to want to go to the Stade de France and more broadly to Paris to participate in demonstrations or operations aimed at disturbing public order around this event.
On the communication routes, the Minister of the Interior asks the prefects to organize in-depth flow control operations in order to detect and control any suspicious person in SNCF and bus stations, public transport, tolls.
“This meeting appears particularly sensitive in the current national and international context and imposes a rigorous system,” insists the tenant of Beauvau.
“Grilles anti-intrusion”
The match will be played with “anti-intrusion grilles (on the pitch, Editor’s note) lifted”, added Bruno Retailleau on our set this Wednesday, November 13. “We will have uniformed police officers in the corridors, plainclothes police officers to possibly bring to justice those who behave badly. We will also have elite men from the Raid,” he detailed.
Around the stadium, “shops will close from 3:45 p.m.”. A “double security perimeter” will be set up to “carry out searches” and “match checks” between the ticket and the spectator’s identity document, added the Minister of the Interior.
The French team receives Israeli players in a very tense context in the middle of the conflict in the Middle East, and a week after the violence that occurred in Amsterdam on the sidelines of a Maccabi Tel-Aviv match. The match was described as “high risk” by police prefect Laurent Nuñez. “We will have in all 4,000 people on the system“, he indicated on our antenna this Sunday.
Matthias Tesson with François Blanchard
