Europe 1 with AFP / Photo credits: Xose Bouzas / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP 21:40 p.m., April 27, 2023
For the final of the Coupe de France Saturday night between Nantes and Toulouse, President Emmanuel Macron will not descend on the lawn of the Stade de France to greet the players one by one, as is customary. The head of state has been hotly contested since the adoption of the pension law.Emmanuel Macron will not go down on the lawn of the Stade de France Saturday night, during the final of the Coupe de France between Nantes and Toulouse, to greet the players one by one as is customary, we learned Thursday from a source close to the file. The head of state has been hotly contested since the adoption of the pension law.
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An important security device will also be deployed this Saturday evening. Some 3,000 police and gendarmes will be mobilized Saturday near the stadium of France, which President Emmanuel Macron will attend all the same, we learned Thursday in the entourage of Gerald Darmanin.
Grids arranged to avoid land invasion
The consequent device will be "50% more 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 Saturday at the security PC, inside the Stade de France.
In addition, grids will be mounted in the corners to "avoid an invasion of the field by supporters," added a police source, referring to the 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 whistles were prohibited in all stadiums so as not to "disturb the refereeing".