Management of supporters scrutinized after fiasco of Champions League final

The French football team finds the Dyonisian enclosure during an evening which promises to be quieter than that of the match which opposed Real Madrid to Liverpool, Saturday.

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Six days after the chaotic final of the Champions League, Saturday May 28, the Stade de France finds a semblance of normality and its blues for the reception of Denmark in the League of Nations, Friday at 8:45 p.m. in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis).

“I have no particular fear, I think and I hope it is greatly going well”, but the incidents of last Saturday gave “a disastrous image of France”, commented on Thursday Guy Stéphan, Didier Deschamps’ assistant, who will take place on the bench on Friday in the absence of the coach, bereaved.

The context seems very different a week later for the authorities and the French Football Federation (FFF), accustomed to quieter evenings with the Blues, even with a match that will be played at closed counters, as scheduled for Friday .

a new RATP strike, less followed

Unlike the police which have set up an exceptional device for the match, the SNCF and the RATP have not changed their habits for a match evening in the management of RER B and D which serve the Stade de France.

“We did not know a particular problem last Saturday in the RERs, notes a spokesperson for the SNCF. Despite the strike which caused a break from the interconnection at Gare du Nord and forced the RER travelers B to a change of train, there was enough frequencies, and we have sent the spectators in normal conditions on the outward journey. “

A new RER B RATP driver strike is scheduled again for Friday, but it is less followed than six days ago and does not lead to this famous rupture of interconnection at Gare du Nord, when RER B goes from the RATP zone, to the south, to the SNCF zone to the north. The transport plan will therefore be normal for an event of this type with the usual frequencies of a Friday evening and trains added to evacuate the passengers after the meeting.

The FFF provides for an ordinary device near the stadium with eight security preferring points and the mobilization of 1,270 safety agents to accommodate the thousands of supporters, including 1,400 to 1,500 Danish are expected.

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2,000 police officers and gendarmes deployed

In addition, just over 2,000 police and gendarmes, 650 of which are attributed to the fight against delinquency are mobilized on Friday to ensure the security of the match, the Paris police headquarters (PP) announced on Thursday evening. For this meeting, the PP indicated that “nearly 77,000 spectators [were] expected”. “1,800 tickets have been assigned to Danish spectators,” she added.

She clarified that she was putting in place on Friday a system “oriented on public order, anti -denquency fight and regulation of flows of people”. In addition, she added, “in order to contain the impact of the strike announced at the RATP, a specific system for regulating flows is set up at the exit of the RER D”.

/Media reports.