Emmanuel Macron will attend the football match Thursday evening at the Stade de France

Emmanuel Macron will be in the stands for the tense match between France and Israel on Thursday, November 14 at the Stade de France, we have learned Le Figaro, confirming information from RTL. The head of state wishes “show his full support for the France team, as he does in every match”explained the president’s entourage.

The latter wishes, moreover, “send a message of fraternity and solidarity after the intolerable anti-Semitic acts which followed the match in Amsterdam this week”. As a reminder, supporters of the Israeli football club Maccabi Tel-Aviv were violently attacked by groups of individuals in the streets of the Dutch capital, during the night from Thursday to Friday. Five supporters were briefly hospitalized and around sixty people arrested.

Israelis urged not to attend match

The France-Israel match – within the framework of the League of Nations – will therefore be held in a climate “high risk”warned Laurent Nuñez, the Paris police prefect, this Sunday on the BFMTV set. A total of 4,000 police officers and gendarmes will be mobilized on Thursday to avoid any overflow.

Israeli authorities also called on supporters on Sunday to avoid going to the match. “The National Security Council recommends that Israelis abroad take precautions (…) particularly during the coming week, to completely avoid going to sporting events and cultural events attended by Israelis , especially at the next match of the Israel team in Paris”indicated in a press release this organization which depends on the Prime Minister’s office.

So far, a small number of tickets have been sold, “between 15,000 and 20,000” out of the 80,000 seats available at the Stade de France.