The match between the French team and the Israeli team is being played with a large police force and an atmosphere of maximum tension following last week’s riots in Amsterdam, but no incidents have been reported at the moment.
Soccer team France Combined under maximum alert with a great security distribution Israel this Thursday time League of NationsOne week after violence and tension erupted Amsterdam In connection with the visit of an Israeli team.
French Police chief Laurent Nuñez said: 4,000 agents and security personnel They were deployed in the area France Stadium and their environmentand another 1,500 police officers on public transport.
Paris authorities intervened high alert After the riots before and after the Europa League match played in Amsterdam of Ajax And Maccabi Tel Aviv. Dutch officials stated: fans of both teams there was involved in riots. Attacks on Maccabi fans sparked outrage and were widely condemned as anti-Semitism.
“What we learned from Amsterdam is that; gifts inside public space even away from the stadium“And public transportation Nuñez stated this before and after the match in his statements to ‘France Info’ this Thursday.
The match in Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of Paris, was scheduled to start at 20.45 local time. A few hours ago pro-Palestinian demonstration attractive several hundred people to a square in Saint-Denis to protest the celebration of the match. No incidents reported. The Israeli team bus arrived at the stadium shortly after 19:00 local time.
Reduced stadium capacity and low attendance of Israeli fans
Three months after hosting the Olympic closing ceremony, the atmosphere turned from festive to somber, and that was to be expected. three quarters of the stadium there was empty This is during the meeting on Thursday, during which French President Emmanuel Macron and Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau are also scheduled to be present. Former presidents François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy were also scheduled to attend.
Speaking to the BFM television channel, Macron said, “We will not bow to antisemitism anywhere. Violence will never prevail, nor intimidation, including in the French Republic.” he said. Less than 20,000 of 80,000 tickets were sold and attendance is reported to be approx. 150 Israeli followersaccompanied by police.
“We tried to prepare for this match as normally as possible,” the France coach said on Wednesday. “But obviously none of us in the team can remain indifferent to such a serious situation.” he said. Didier Deschamps. The away match against Israel, which France won 4-1 on October 10, was played in Budapest, Hungary.
The low attendance of visiting fans on Thursday came after Israel’s National Security Council warned citizens abroad to avoid sporting and cultural events, especially the match in Paris. Retailleau told the French news channel ‘TF1’ on Tuesday: no specific threat identifiedbut this “zero risk“.
