Macron on Thursday in France-Israel

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Emmanuel Macron will watch the football match between France and Israel on Thursday, after the incidents in Amsterdam.

French President Emmanuel Macron will attend the France-Israel soccer match at the Stade de France on Thursday in Saint-Denis (north of Paris), following the violent incidents that took place this week in Amsterdam on the sidelines of a match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel-Aviv, it was announced today by the presidential palace.

According to Macron’s entourage, the French president wants in this way “to send a message of brotherhood and solidarity following the unacceptable anti-Semitic acts following the match in Amsterdam this week.”

The French government insisted that will not change its plans to host the match that of the Nations’ League and will be based on massive security measures with the deployment of thousands of police officers around the stadium to ensure the safety of the visiting fans.

Five Maccabi Tel-Aviv fans were taken to hospital because of the violent incidents that took place on the night of Thursday to Friday in Amsterdam. Police reported sixty arrests and Israel organized emergency flights to repatriate its citizens. According to police, the groups that attacked the fans responded to a call on social media to target Jews.

But videos that have seen the light of day record Maccabi hooligans shouting abusive slogans against Palestine and lowering Palestinian flags from the balconies of houses in Amsterdam.

Macron, APE reports, “categorically condemned” on Friday “the violence against Israeli citizens in Amsterdam”, which, according to him, reminds “the most undignified moments in history”.

On their part, Israeli authorities today called on fans to avoid going to the France-Israel match.

“The National Security Council recommends that Israelis abroad act with precautions (…) especially in the coming week, to completely avoid going to sports meetings and cultural events in which Israelis participate, especially the next match of the Israeli team in Paris,” this agency, which depends on the prime minister’s office, said in a statement.

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