If the festivities, concerts and fireworks are well maintained, it is a July 14 under very close surveillance that awaits you this year. To avoid possible riots, the government announced, at the beginning of the week, the establishment of an “exceptional system” of 45,000 members of the police. The goal: to ensure the security of the national festivities of July 13 and 14 each evening, the “special” excesses of which could be fueled by the recent urban violence in reaction to the death of Nahel in Nanterre, relays the Capital article on the subject .

The special riot modus operandi will be mobilized for this purpose: “The Raid, the GIGN, the BRI, the helicopters of the national gendarmerie which will fly from July 13, of course the drones…, I also asked the Prime Minister to ‘use of armored vehicles,’ said Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin at a press conference. And this on the most sensitive municipalities. The latter added the greatest firmness to the direction of the prefects, with systematic instructions for questioning.