Ahead of tonight's World Cup semi-final between France and Morocco, 5,000 police are mobilizing in the city.


The reason?


That they fear a "civil war" regardless of which nation makes it to the final, writes Aftonbladet and refers to The Sun.



Paris district local mayor Jeanne d'Hauteserre has asked for the Champs-Élysées avenue to be closed for security reasons.



- We don't want the Champs-Élysées to turn into a battlefield, says d'Hauteserre to French CNews.



It became worried when Morocco knocked out Portugal in the quarter-finals.

Clashes with police led to hundreds of arrests and damage to shops, as well as a number of car fires lighting up the streets of Paris.