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.