France-Israel: should the match be relocated? “This would amount to abdicating”, according to Bruno Retailleau

There is no no direct threat to the match » France-Israel, a police source confirmed to AFP on Thursday. To avoid any overflow, security in and around the Stade de France and its 80,000 seats should be reinforced, with plainclothes police officers in the bays of the Dyonisian enclosure. Twenty-six companies, or around 2,500 mobile gendarmes or police officers, should be requisitioned for this meeting and the hotel where the Israeli selection will stay will be under surveillance. CRS companies will also be distributed throughout the capital, another police source told AFP.

“I don’t know if this is the best solution”

The first rows of the Stade de France, closest to the pitch, will not be occupied, to avoid any invasion of the pitch. The Stade de France should not be full anyway, according to this same source. Playing this match in Saint-Denis, in very tight security conditions, “ I don't know if it was the best solution », Declared for his part the coach Didier Deschamps, returning the ball to his president Philippe Diallo.

The Minister responsible for Europe Benjamin Haddad in any case urged on Friday not to show “ano weakness, no cowardice in the face of anti-Semitism » after the violence in Amsterdam. On Monday, around forty demonstrators from the “Stop Genocide” association entered the FFF premises to protest against the holding of this match and to demand that Israel be banned from competitions by FIFA. A few days later, before PSG's defeat against Atletico Madrid (2-1) in the Champions League, the Collectif ultras Paris rolled out a tifo with the message “Free Palestine”, around the red and blue colors of the PSG, with a bloody Palestinian flag, the flag of Lebanon, tanks or even a person wearing a keffiyeh. The immense canvas bearing drawings and covering the entire Auteuil stand topped a banner “ War on the ground but peace in the world ».