Rarely does the presence of the President of the Republic at a soccer match has ever been so important. By attending the France-Israel match on Thursday at the Stade de France, Emmanuel Macron will not be sacrificing a ceremonial obligation, but delivering a political message, “ a message of fraternity and solidarity after the intolerable acts of anti-Semitism “ who followed the match in the Netherlands between Ajax Amsterdam and Maccabi Tel-Aviv.

Given the risk of violence in Seine-Saint-Denis, where the match will take place in the midst of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this fear could have led to the match being cancelled. This is what the LFI MP Louis Boyard and other Insoumis elected representatives. Incredible inversion of victimhood: since some might lash out at Israelis in France, let’s prevent them from coming. By warning from the outset that it was out of the question to cancel this match or have it played elsewhere than at the Stade de France, Bruno Retailleau…