Overview
- Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez sent a Friday telegram instructing prefects and police and gendarmerie chiefs to raise vigilance ahead of the anniversary events.
- The directive applies nationwide from November 10 to 16 with a specific focus on concert venues and large festive gatherings under tailored crowd-control plans.
- Internal security forces and Sentinelle troops are tasked with giving particular attention to these sites considered vulnerable.
- Officials cite a context of domestic and international tensions and call for close monitoring of attempts at foreign interference around the commemorations.
- Recent intelligence operations inform the posture after the DGSI disrupted a suspected plot and three women were charged on October 10, with discussions that mentioned Paris bars and concert halls.