Morocco defeated Portugal 1-0 in the quarter-finals in Qatar, becoming the first African country to reach the semi-finals.
All over Paris, Moroccan supporters march and honk to celebrate their victory.
According to our special correspondent, Luc Lenoir, “
many police trucks are stationed on the Champs-Élysées, almost all along the avenue.
The horns are uninterrupted, and the cries of Moroccan supporters are very numerous
.
"
To the delight of supporters, motorbike and car drivers 'break' their engines when they don't honk
," he adds.
Cautious after the scenes of looting and degradation in Brussels after the Moroccan victory in early December, the police have planned a very tight device to avoid overflows.
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1,220 police and gendarmes, in civilian clothes as well as in uniform, have been mobilized in the capital and its inner suburbs for 4 p.m.
The police will patrol "
in all Parisian stations and stations, in particular in those usually borrowed to reach the Champs-Élysées
", warned the police headquarters.
A specific system has been set up on the most beautiful avenue in the world "
in order to prevent any disturbance to public order likely to be generated by supporters and to fight against all phenomena of delinquency
".
Finally, the gates of La Muette, Maillot, Ternes and Dauphine are inaccessible from the ring road.
The Paris police headquarters also indicates that an appropriate judicial processing system has been put in place.