Paris will deploy thousands of police officers during the Champions League football final between home favorites Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan in Munich on Saturday, French police said Friday, May 30.
"A massive deployment in the capital and its surroundings, with 5,400 personnel mobilized... that's enormous," Paris police chief Laurent Nuñez said in an interview with Le Parisien daily.
Many of the officers will be deployed on the French capital's Champs-Elysées avenue and around PSG's home stadium Parc des Princes, where the matched will be screened, he said. After PSG's semi-final victory against Arsenal earlier in May, police had made dozens of arrests following acts of vandalism.
The game is the climax to the European season. Despite enormous spending, PSG have never won the most glamorous prize in European club football. This is PSG's only second final since the transformative Qatari takeover of the team from the French capital in 2011.