Three thousand police and gendarmes will be mobilized for the final of the Coupe de France on Saturday.
Some 3,000 police and gendarmes will be mobilized on Saturday near the Stade de France for the final of the Coupe de France football between Nantes and Toulouse, which President Emmanuel Macron will attend, we learned Thursday in the entourage of Gérald Darmanin. The consequent device will be50 % plus important“, according to the entourage of the Minister of the Interior, than that mobilized on May 28, 2022 for the final of the Champions League, won by Real Madrid against Liverpool (1-0), which had turned into a security fiasco.
The prefect of police of Paris, Laurent Nuñez will be on Saturday at the security PC, inside the Stade de France. The Head of State, who has been the subject of fierce disputes since the adoption of the law on pensions, will not descend on the lawn of the Stadium as is customary, we learned from a source close to the case. In addition, grids will be fitted in the bends to “avoid invasion of the field by supporters“Added a police source, referring to Toulouse.
While the unions plan to distribute red cards and whistles to spectators to show their rejection of the pension reform and their dissatisfaction with the head of state, a police source recalled that the whistles were prohibited in all stages so as not tonot disrupt the refereeing».
