France deploys 70,000 security personnel across country for Bastille Day, World Cup semifinal events, as it happened
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The Bastille Day parade in Paris is now over, but this is not the end of big events in France today as by a coincidence Les Bleus will play in the World Cup semi-final against Spain later tonight.
70,000 security personnel have been deployed across the country to protect all sorts of public events yesterday and today, including tonight’s game in Dallas, Le Figaro reported.
French interior minister Laurent Nuñez told BFM TV that the authorities are “maintaining a high level of vigilance,” and are ready to “put an immediate stop to any disorder.”
Nuñez confidently said that the authorities will monitor celebrations, “and France will win, so there will be celebrations ”, and act whenever needed. “No unruly behavior will be tolerated,” he said.
