Overview
- Police and gendarmes are deployed nationwide today, including 10,000 in Paris, with forces bracing for crowd control on the Champs‑Élysées and potential unrest around Algeria’s 5 p.m. CAN match.
- In Marseille, a prefectural order closes the Vieux‑Port to motor traffic from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m., as 1,500 police and gendarmes are mobilised and drones are authorised from 5 p.m. to 6 a.m.
- Temporary bans cover pyrotechnics plus selective alcohol and fuel sales in high‑risk zones, and the Champs‑Élysées has strict entry checks with alcohol prohibited ahead of the midnight fireworks and mapping show.
- Customs and gendarmerie intensified checks on the Franco‑German border to block illicit fireworks, seizing about 10 kg in two hours at the Palmrain crossing and roughly 100 kg since early December.
- Prévention Routière reports 79% of people plan to drink and 26% plan to drive tonight, up from 2024, prompting expanded roadside controls and calls to arrange sober transport.