Gérald Darmanin also announced on Friday that 12,840 police and gendarmes would be mobilized during the small final of the World Croatia and Morocco on Saturday.
Mo12345lemonde with AFP
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, said the security system that will be set up in the last two games of the World Cup on Friday, December 16. To avoid any overflow or incident, some 14,000 police and gendarmes will be mobilized everywhere on the territory on Sunday during the France-Argentina final. They will also be 12,840 on Saturday to ensure the security of the small final of the World Cup, Croatie-Maroc.
The system, presented by the officials of the police to the Minister of the Interior at the Paris police headquarters on Friday in the early morning, is more important than that deployed for the semi-final won by France Face in Morocco. They were then 10,000 members of the police deployed on the ground, half of which in Ile-de-France.
Saturday, the Champs-Elysées will remain open to traffic. On the other hand, they will be fully pedestrianized on Sunday during the France-Argentine final, in anticipation of a great crowd.
After the France-Maroc semi-final on Wednesday, 266 arrests took place throughout the territory, including 167 in Paris. Among them, thirty-eight people who are part of the “far-right movement”, were arrested in the capital by the police. The result of the excavations reveals a violence prepared to the bottom of the pockets.