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France Mobilizes 90,000 Officers for New Year’s Eve, With 10,000 in Paris

Authorities emphasize rapid, firm intervention against terrorism, crowd surges, mortar fireworks, CAN-related spillovers.

Overview

  • Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez confirmed the nationwide deployment and reiterated instructions for “firmness” and “reactivity” in policing the night of December 31.
  • Paris will field about 10,000 police, gendarmes and Sentinelle troops, with a protection perimeter planned for major gathering points including the Champs-Élysées.
  • The Champs-Élysées New Year’s concert is canceled this year, though a midnight fireworks display and video projection on the Arc de Triomphe will proceed.
  • Prefectures across France issued targeted restrictions including bans on pyrotechnics, certain fuels and take‑away alcohol, with orders detailed locally such as in Aude.
  • Alsace authorities tightened controls with broad firework prohibitions, a curfew for minors from 9 p.m. Dec. 31 to 6 a.m. Jan. 1, reinforced border checks and requests for CRS and mobile gendarmerie reinforcements.