At least 38 detained in the French Cup final, the scene of anti-Macron protests

At least 38 people were detained in French Cup Final men’s football, the scene of protests against the French president, Emmanuel Macronand raising the retirement age called for this Saturday, which coincides with the presence of the president at the Stade de France in Paris.

Authorities reported that these arrests were motivated intentional violence, theft and carrying smoke bombs, reports French television BFMTV. Macron was present at the meeting between the teams Toulouse and Nanteswhich resulted in a 5-1 victory for the former, and he greeted the players as usual, although he did so in the corridors of the stadium and not on the pitch, as had happened on other occasions, to avoid controversy.

The final was chosen by the unions to ask participants to demonstrate a symbolic red card to Macron the law raising the retirement age from 82 to 84. The authorities have announced that it will be forbidden to enter the country with red cards distributed by the inter-union, with the slogan “No retirement at 64”. The security guards confiscated the cards despite the Paris Administrative Court’s decision to suspend the ban on access to them.

However, various French media confirmed that there were red cards in the country despite the controls and that they proved themselves in the 49th minute, related to article 49.3. with which the Government facilitated the adoption of the pension reform. “The president sends her prefects to pursue whistleblowers. He installs bars with pikes on stadiums. Greet players stealthily. All this to hide the obvious: his clique is hated,” noted opposition lawmaker François Ruffin on Twitter. “More than ever, they’re unhappy,” he noted. “Either he lied, or he’s not in control. In both cases, seriously,” said the coordinator of La Francia Insumisa, Manuel Bompard, responding this Saturday to the statements of the police prefect, Laurent Núñez, who said that people will not be prevented from entering the stadium with a red card

Some 3,000 policemen and gendarmes and 1,400 security guards They have been mobilized to guarantee security to try to avoid a fiasco like the one in the 2022 Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid.

The police prefecture established a “protective perimeter” around the Stade de France with “filtering devices and controls provided by the organizers, in particular to prevent the introduction of any dangerous object or object prohibited by the regulations of the French Football Federation”.