Emmanuel Macron will greet the players before they enter the field, not on the lawn of the Stade de France

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1:27 p.m. : “The Stade de France is gradually becoming not a popular party place, but a bunker for Mr. Macron. The wisest decision would be for Mr. Macron not to come to the Stade de France if he cannot suffer his unpopularity He could be represented by the Minister of Sports.”

The LFI deputy for Haute-Garonne, François Piquemal, believes that the president “spoils the Coupe de France”, in a message posted on Twitter. He joins forces with the National Association of Supporters to denounce the installation of “fencing with spikes, dangerous for the safety of supporters in addition to being stigmatizing.”

1:31 p.m. : Emmanuel Macron will not greet the players on the lawn of the Stade de France before the final of the Coupe de France between Nantes and Toulouse, learned franceinfo from the presidential entourage. The president will greet the players before they enter the field.

12:21 p.m. : Good morning @Daniel. Indeed, the prefect of police of Paris, Laurent Nuñez, asked the FFF “let the match be held with the gates up in the bends”. The National Association of supporters was concerned about it, believing that it could present a risk in the event of crowd movement, with the precedent of 1989 in Hillsborough (97 dead in a stampede). Laurent Nuñez replied that safety devices, if any, allowed the gates to be lowered. Julien Balidas, from France Bleu Occitanie, publishes these images.

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12:03 : And if we were talking about the spiked grids installed at the edge of the field and the potential danger. Do we talk about it in serious media and at franceinfo?

10:23 : The City of Paris is asking for financial compensation from the State, to repair the damage committed on the sidelines of the mobilization days. The total cost is estimated this year at 1.6 million euros, according to information from the Parisian. “It is up to the State to pay the cost of the damage linked to the demonstrations, of which it must ensure the organization and supervision, and not to the Parisians”writes Emmanuel Grégoire, first deputy mayor.

09:16 : “Sport is a gathering place where you try to forget a certain number of your worries. You try to get together with friends, with your family, around a sporting issue. I tell them to all: ‘Take a little break! Let this final take place in the best conditions and let people get excited about their colors.’

The Coupe de France final must stay “a sporting issue before being a political issue”declared on franceinfo Philippe Diallo, the interim president of the French Football Federation.

09:13 : The unions intend to be heard to denounce the pension reform, but the prefecture has banned the gatherings. A total of 3,000 police forces will be mobilized this evening, and 1,400 security agents will be deployed by the FFF in the Stade de France. Franceinfo tells you more about the very particular context of this meeting.

09:13 : Nantes and Toulouse face each other tonight in the final of the Coupe de France. Both teams will have to ignore a “unprecedented security climatewriting The Team. The daily evokes the “protests expected against the pension reform and the presence of the President of the Republic”.

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