France-Israel football match: Bruno Retailleau opposes relocation after attack on Israeli supporters in Amsterdam

The football match between France and Israel, scheduled for November 14 at the Stade de France, will not be relocated, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau announced Friday.

“Some are calling for the France-Israel match to be relocated. I do not accept this: France is not backing down because that would amount to giving up in the face of threats of violence and anti-Semitism”, posted Bruno Retailleau on his X account.

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“At my request, the police prefect Laurent Nunez is taking the necessary security measures so that this match can take place at the Stade de France, as usual”, he added.

RN MP Julien Odoul notably proposed on Thursday to move the match to Corsica while, at the beginning of November, the Insoumis Louis Boyard called for its pure and simple cancellation.

Boyard calls for cancellation

“I want this match not to take place“, declared Louis Boyard, relaying a petition calling for the cancellation of this Nations League match. The first leg, played on October 10 and won by the Blues (4-1), took place in Budapest.

On September 6, the Nations League match between Belgium and Israel did not take place in Brussels, as initially planned. It had been relocated to Debrecen in Hungary.

Around sixty people were arrested after several incidents on the sidelines of the match between Ajax Amsterdam and Maccabi Tel Aviv. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced “a premeditated attack.”