• After the fiasco of last Saturday, the Minister of the Interior and the prefect of police will be under pressure this Friday evening, during the match between France and Denmark at the Stade de France.

  • To ensure the safety of the 78,000 expected spectators, 2,000 police and gendarmes, including 650 dedicated to the fight against crime, will be deployed around the sports arena.

  • A device deemed disproportionate for a meeting presenting no risk.

On the ground, the Blues could find it difficult to get rid of the Danish team, surprise semi-finalist of the last Euro football.

But the players of Didier Deschamps will not be the only ones to have the pressure this Friday evening at the Stade de France.

Six days after the chaotic Champions League final between Real Madrid and Liverpool, the authorities deployed an important device to ensure the security of the meeting.

It must be said that the images of spectators huddled together behind the gates, of the police intervening with tear gas and of criminals stealing and attacking the supporters have gone around the world, triggering a lively controversy that goes well beyond the borders of Europe. Hexagon.

Faced with criticism, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, was summoned to explain himself to the senators of the Law Commission, who questioned him at length on Wednesday about the dysfunctions noted last Saturday.

The tenant of Place Beauvau admitted that "things could have been better organized" and regretted that "this sports festival was ruined".

On the other hand, he maintained his accusations against the English supporters, whom he holds solely responsible for "the massive, industrial and organized fraud of counterfeit tickets".

Without ever reviewing its position on the security system put in place for the final.

Unconvincing explanations

Despite his insistence, 76% of French people were not convinced by his explanations, according to an Odoxa-Backbone Consulting poll for

Le Figaro

.

The Head of State made it clear, during a trip to Marseille, that he maintained his confidence in the first cop in France.

But according to a source interviewed by BFM TV, Emmanuel Macron was "furious" against his Minister of the Interior, whom he did not fail to reframe in private.

For its part,

Le Canard enchaîné

writes that the President of the Republic described Saturday's "spectacle" as "pitiful", "shameful" and "unworthy of France".

Gérald Darmanin seems aware that no overflow will be admitted this Friday evening by the highest peak in the state.

Although the meeting does not present any particular risk, an important security device will therefore be deployed around the Stade de France: 2,000 police and gendarmes, including 650 dedicated to the fight against crime, which had been somewhat neglected by the executives. of the Prefecture of Police during the match between Real Madrid and Liverpool.

“Our attention had not been paid to this aspect, and we all learn the lessons of last Saturday”, declared on BFMTV the spokesperson for the police headquarters, Loubna Atta.

"We don't play in the same category"

The routing of the public will also be scrutinized closely while a strike on the RER B is planned, like last Saturday.

Traffic had been slightly disrupted on the line serving the Stade de France, resulting in a transfer to the RER D and metro line 13, which fueled the mess.

The police headquarters has indicated that a “specific flow regulation device” will be put in place at the exit of the RER D. The FFF, for its part, provides for an ordinary device around the stadium, with eight pre-filtering points security and the mobilization of 1,270 security officers to welcome the 78,000 spectators expected.

Faced with the scale of the system deployed, Linda Kebbab, national delegate of the SGP-Police FO Unit union, does not hide her astonishment.

“We're pulling out all the stops for a meeting between two national teams when we should have better prepared and anticipated the meeting between two European clubs and great international footballers.

The popular fervor and part of the public are not the same”, she explains, stressing that “the hoolignan risk has absolutely nothing to do”.

And the trade unionist to conclude: “It would be a mistake to say that the police headquarters will not have failed if tonight things go better than Saturday.

We don't play in the same category.

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