Two days before the match between France and Israel at the Stade de France, the Paris Prefecture of Police is stepping up security around the match. The reason for this is that the event will take place one week after the violence committed against Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters in Amsterdam. To avoid any outbursts, against a backdrop of soaring anti-Semitic acts in France (multiplied by four in one year, according to the latest statistics released by Beauvau), a large-scale security operation is planned.

Guest on TF1’s “20 heures” on Tuesday evening, the French Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau boasted of “exceptional measures before, during and after the match, near the Stadium, but also in the RER and on public transport.”. “We mobilized a lot of law enforcement, all the resources of our law to do controls, searches, palpations, and compare the names of the tickets with the ID cards.”said France’s top cop. And he confirmed that the elite Raid unit, which has already been protecting Israeli players since their arrival on French soil, “will be in the stadium. alongside uniformed police officers “in the corridors and in civilian clothes.

“There is no such thing as zero risk

A total of 4,000 police and gendarmerie officers and 1,600 security guards will be mobilized for the occasion. If there is no “particular threat”the “zero risk does not existsaid Gérald Darmanin’s successor, according to whom government services will work in parallel “a very particular surveillance in neighborhoods, in places frequented by our compatriots of the Jewish faith.” “It’s out of the question to let the slightest deviation go by”. he insisted.

After the devastating images in the Dutch capital where several groups of individuals targeted Jewish people in a coordinated fashion, according to Dutch police, Bruno Retailleau hammered it home: “There is no question of having this repetition of dramatic events, this manhunt.” While some voices were urging the host at Place Beauvau to cancel the sporting event, hold it behind closed doors, or even move it to another venue, the Vendéen refuses to “back down” and “to submit”. Before thundering that “France and the Republic do not submit to hatemongers”..