The Minister of the Interior addressed the prefects, as well as the directors general of the police and the gendarmerie, in a telegram broadcast this Friday. He thus calls their “attention” to the gatherings and services of the Jewish and Christian cults which will be held from Saturday evening to Monday evening”, “in the context of the Jewish holidays of Shavuot and Christian of Pentecost”.
The Minister of the Interior notes “the high level of the terrorist threat” which “requires the maintenance of strong vigilance, in particular vis-à-vis places of a religious nature”. Gérald Darmanin lists the measures to be taken, in particular the attention paid to vehicles parked near places of worship or the use of Sentinel forces.
A game under surveillance
Less than a week after the numerous incidents which marked the surroundings of the Stade de France, a reinforced security system will also be deployed for the League of Nations match of the Blues against Denmark this Friday, June 3. With an emphasis on crime prevention. 2080 gendarmes and police will be mobilized and, as announced by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin during his hearing in the Senate on Thursday, it will be modified compared to last Saturday and that set up around the clash between Spaniards and English.
According to our information, around twenty BAC crews, i.e. around sixty plainclothes police officers, should be deployed at several strategic points within the security perimeter, inside the Stade de France, on the forecourt and on the which leads to metro line 13. 150 other plainclothes police officers will be positioned outside this perimeter, in particular on the paths leading to RER B and D.
A dozen sections of the security companies, the BRAV, will also be present on the ground this Friday evening, including a motorized BRAV. Five of them, around 100 police officers in total, had to be recalled from their leave to come and reinforce the system around these matches between the tricolors and the Scandinavians.