The public will not only chant slogans related to the match.
Against the backdrop of fierce protest over the pension reform, Emmanuel Macron intends to attend the final of the Coupe de France between FC Nantes and Toulouse FC on Saturday evening, but he should not, according to AFP, go down on the lawn. to greet the players and kick off the game symbolically.
Way for the Head of State to avoid the clouds of whistles of protest from some 78,000 spectators expected at the Stade de France.
The president could nevertheless be overtaken by the challenge … even within the presidential gallery.
“Thousands of red cards”
Because the local Insoumis deputy, Éric Coquerel, benefits from a reserved place in “
the basket
”, where he intends to manifest himself.
“I will not be far from Macron and I will brandish my red card”
, explained to
Liberation
the one who is also LFI president of the Finance Committee of the Assembly.
Like him, thousands of people could well do the same from the stands: the departmental inter-union of Seine-Saint-Denis has planned a large distribution of red cards and whistles before the match.
An initiative that annoys the executive.
“The final of the Coupe de France is not Roman-style circus games, it is not the CGT with its imperial thumb that could decide who to boo the President of the Republic, who to cut off the electricity during a match”
, hammered Olivier Véran, the government spokesperson on BFMTV on Friday.
A reference to the action of the CGT which claimed Thursday evening a power cut of thirty minutes during the Agen-Nevers rugby match.
On Europe 1 on Friday morning, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin meanwhile indicated that
“3000 police and gendarmes”
will be deployed to ensure security,
“and in particular people who will be responsible for checking that there will be no no (of) power cuts”
.