Overview

• Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau’s telegram warned prefects that this weekend’s overlapping PSG–Chelsea final and Bastille Day events could spark urban violence, prompting intensified security directives.
• Prefecture of Police has banned certain alcohol and pyrotechnic sales and ordered property owners to inspect communal areas, cellars and roofs for potential projectiles.
• Paris police commissariats are operating at full strength with 100% officer attendance complemented by 11,500 police and gendarmes, mobile units at Les Halles and along the Seine and municipal mediators directing crowds.
• The Brigade des sapeurs-pompiers de Paris has mobilized 2,300 firefighters, including 400 additional personnel, to support firemen’s balls, concerts and the July 14 parade.
• Other prefectures, including Gironde, Toulouse and Rhône, have activated reinforced security devices featuring Force Sentinelle troops, joint patrols and random vehicle checks.