During the World Cup, 220 French agents will support the Qatari police for the security of the tournament. Their movement bonus will be supported by the emirate.
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The debates were stormy but the ballot went relatively unnoticed at the heart of the summer. On August 4, the National Assembly ratified the agreement between France and Qatar establishing a partnership relating to the security of the 2022 Football World Cup, organized by the Emirate from November 20 to December 18. The said intergovernmental agreement, put on rails in 2019 and signed in March 2021, was voted by the Senate in February. He will come into force on 1 er November and is supposed to expire in June 2023.
Concretely, 220 French agents, “mainly from the national gendarmerie and civil security”, as confirmed by the Ministry of the Interior, will go to Qatar to support the Qatari police during the tournament. “The French ambition is not to deploy units made up in large numbers but to provide high -level expertise and operational support specializing in so -called” niche “areas covering the top of the spectrum of the threat, “we develop in Beauvau.
In detail, the emirate 170 operators in the fight antidron, 21 specialized operators of the intervention group of the National Gendarmerie (GIGN) will rally, 10 operators in terms of demining, 10 cynophile teams for exploding explosives , a dozen police officers provided by the National Division for the Fight against Hooliganism. In the workforce of the gendarmerie leaving for Qatar, several women are concerned.
No “culture of order”
“This mission is rewarding and will serve as a showcase and preparation for the French forces before the 2023 rugby World Cup and the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris”, argues a relative of the file, advancing that France remains a “model” in this field on the global level. And this, despite the Mondovision hiccup of May 28, during the Champions League final, at the Stade de France (Seine-Saint-Denis).
“France will not be alone in Qatar: several countries have been asked to help secure the event”, specifies the senator representing the French from abroad, Olivier Cadic (Central Union), rapporteur of the bill relating to the agreement. According to the parliamentarian, it is “via interpol stadia [project on the security of major sporting events created by Interpol in 2012, funded up to $ 10 million per … Qatar and prolonged, according to Mediapart, until 2024 ] “that” this call for tenders “was made.
In the field, the 220 French agents will rub shoulders with several thousand of their Jordanian, Italian, Turkish and American counterparts. “The idea is that there is a transfer of skills, underlines the deputy Amélia Lakrafi (Renaissance), reporter of the bill to the National Assembly. Since the allocation of the tournament, in 2010, we know that Qatar is not enough dimensioned, does not have enough police officers and has neither the habit nor the culture of maintaining order. In Qatar, there is no manifestation or crowd movement and the request is become strong in terms of logistics with the holding of the World Cup and the presence of 1 to 1.5 million spectators. “
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