Europe 1 with AFP / Photo credit: Firas Abdullah / ANADOLU AGENCY / Anadolu Agency via AFP 14:57 p.m., July 12, 2023

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin announced Wednesday the deployment of an "exceptional device" of 45,000 police and gendarmes on the evenings of July 13 and 14 to prevent the risk of incidents during the festivities.

he deployment resumes the "same modus operandi as during the riots" that followed the death of the young Nahuel, killed by a policeman in Nanterre on June 27, and will include the elite units of the RAID, GIGN and the BRI as well as helicopters and armored vehicles of the gendarmerie, added Gérald Darmanin to the press.

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