LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP
PSG-Michelsea and July 14: an impressive security and police system is planned in Paris and in the suburbs. (Illustration image)
POLICE-Paris-Saint-Germain continues to make his fans dream … and nightmare the police. The capital and its surroundings will be under surveillance for the end of this extended weekend with 11,500 security forces mobilized for “Prevent any risk of overflow, disorder to public order” or any phenomenon of “Urban violence”. In question: the final of the World Cup this Sunday, July 13, where the Parisians will face Chelsea, then the national holiday on Monday 14.
The Paris police headquarters, which deploys police, gendarmes and firefighters (including 400 in addition to the 1,900 usually on duty on July 14), set up “An important security device, from [dimanche] 7 pm, especially on the avenue des Champs-Élysées where no gathering will be tolerated ”announce a press release consulted by AFP and The HuffPost.
While the PSG-Chelsea final, which is played in New York, will start at 9 p.m. (French time), a decree that will apply at 8 p.m. “The great gatherings of people aimed at attending the retransmission of events (fan zones, screens on the public highway, screens turned towards the public highway)”. The ban will apply until Monday at 3 am.
60,000 people expected for July 14 celebrations
Barely the match passed, the security forces will remain on the lookout. Monday morning, the avenue des Champs-Élysées will be the scene of the traditional military parade, where public filtering points will be positioned with palpations and searches of the bags. Later in the evening, a classic music concert at the Champ-de-Mars will be held at 9 p.m., followed at 11 p.m. from a 20-minute fireworks display. Some 60,000 people are expected, according to the police headquarters.
In 2024, a few days before the Olympic Games, she had mobilized 11,000 police for the festivities of July 14 (the parade had taken place exceptionally avenue Foch). In 2023, a few weeks after the riots following the death of Nahel, killed by a police officer during a road check in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), they were 10,000.
“For the moment, we are not aware of risk but we, we still always prepare for that there are disturbances to public order”said police prefect Laurent Nuñez on Saturday morning on BFMTV, evoking a “Very dense device everywhere in Paris and in the Parisian agglomeration” and announcing that “Nearly 2,000 fireworks” have already been seized.
“We will react with great firmness”warned Laurent Nuñez, who said that“A dozen arrests” have already taken place and which has given the instruction the « dispersion totale » In the event of a rally on the Champs-Élysées on Sunday evening, due to the parade organized the next day.
“A criminal policy full of firmness”
According to a police source, “The particularity of the 2025 edition of the festivities of July 14 is their spread over 3 days with three possible nights of actions”. “The agitated international context and perceptible tensions in certain districts will be the subject of particular vigilance”. For its part, the prosecutor of Paris Laure Beccuau was more reassuring, ensuring that there is “No major element of concern in terms of public order”.
However, the magistrate warned on Friday that“A criminal policy full of firmness” would be applied in the event of incidents. “We will pursue any offense against the police, depositaries of the public authority, the emergency services”she warned, recalling that the “Violence”THE « menaces » or the “Mortar jets” are unacceptable.
A police officer had been placed in artificial coma in the English Channel after being injured by a fireworks mortars on the sidelines of the coronation of Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League on June 1. The director general of the National Police Louis Laugier called in a telegram to strengthen the controls from July 7 to 13 against the diverted use of pyrotechnic machines, of the fireworks type.
The authorities are also called to vigilance and firmness, by a circular from the Ministry of Justice, in the event of women’s bites, a phenomenon noted during the music festival in several regions in France.
