4,000 law enforcement officers will be mobilized on Thursday, says the Paris police prefect

A total of 4,000 police and gendarmes will be mobilized on Thursday November 14 for the match at “high risk“France-Israel at the Stade de France, in Saint-Denis, Paris police chief Laurent Nuñez announced on Sunday.

Such a deployment of law enforcement corresponds to a “extremely reinforced device“, “very unusual“, for an international match, added the police prefect on BFMTV.

The 4,000 police forces will be deployed around and, rarely, in the stadium, as well as on public transport and throughout Paris. Around 1,600 security agents will also be mobilized at the Stade de France and the Raid, the elite unit of the national police, will be engaged for the security of the Israel team, continued Laurent Nuñez.

“This will be a high risk match“, he said again, in “a very tense geopolitical context” and a week after clashes in Amsterdam between supporters of Ajax Amsterdam and Maccabi Tel Aviv which sparked international condemnation.

“We will not tolerate any excesses or disturbances to public order.“, declared the prefect of police, adding that controls to enter the stadium would be “extremely reinforced” but that the police had not “requested that there be a limited tonnage” in the stadium for this League of Nations meeting.