DECRYPTAGE – No fewer than 2,500 police officers and gendarmes will be mobilized to secure the area around the stadium and public transport, and to protect Israeli fans right up to the last train.
For several days, the France-Israel soccer matchscheduled for November 14 in Saint-Denis, was already shaping up to be a high-risk affair. Scenes of anti-Semitic lynchings that targeted Maccabi Tel-Aviv supporters in Amsterdam on Thursday evening have made the event a dangerous one.
With less than a week to go before the event at the Stade de France, the Prefecture de Police is deploying what it describes as a “security operation”. extremely reinforced “to guarantee the highest possible level of security. Clearly, the entire perimeter will be saturated with “blue”, as in during the Paris Olympics.
No fewer than 2,500 police officers and gendarmes are expected to be mobilized to secure the area around the stadium and the B and D lines of the RER, which attracts spectators by public transport, and to accompany the Israeli supporters to the last train. Around 90 of them, who have made the journey from the Holy Land, will be subject to…
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