At the Paris Olympics, where demonstrations are also anticipated, about 1,000 French police officers will be on duty on Wednesday to safeguard Israel’s football match against Mali.
Gerald Darmanin, the interior minister, announced that over a thousand French police officers would be on duty on Wednesday to guard Israel’s football match versus Mali at the Paris Olympics, where demonstrations anticipated too. The France-Iraq match in the southeast city of Lyon and the Israeli team’s match in the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris have been deemed as high risk events by French security services. “All the competitions have a security plan, but it’s true that these two matches, and particularly the match at the Parc des Princes, will have security, an anti-terror perimeter,” Darmanin told radio stations BFM and RMC.”Tonight at the Parc des Princes there will be a thousand police officers who will ensure that we are there for the sport,” he explained.
Isaac Herzog, the president of Israel, will be present at the game.
When the Games officially begin on Friday, all Israeli competitors will get 24-hour personal security from elite French police, both inside the Olympic village and whenever they leave the northern Paris site.
Security forces were “expecting actions and disturbances around the stadium” on Wednesday, a French police source told AFP. The source speculated that there would be “whistling and flags shown during the hymns, for example” or that “people shout insults from the stands.”
9:00 p.m. (1900 GMT) is when the game begins.In response to the “genocide” in Gaza, Europalestine, the French activist group that organized the most recent protests, announced to the Guardian that it intended to hold a nonviolent protest inside the stadium.
“All athletes have been informed of the situation and we do not take (the threat) lightly,” Israeli government spokesman David Mencer said.
“Our duty to protect our athletes, in cooperation with the French authorities, is of the utmost importance,” he continued.
Israel’s request to be excluded from the Paris Games due to the Gaza War was turned down on Tuesday by French President Emmanuel Macron and International Olympic Committee (IOC) chairman Thomas Bach.In response to the “genocide” in Gaza, Europalestine, the French activist group that organized the most recent protests, announced to the Guardian that it intended to hold a nonviolent protest inside the stadium.
At least 39,090 Palestinians have died in the more than nine months of fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants, according to the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, which was announced on Tuesday.
