FILE - Riot police officers patrol near the Eiffel Tower Monday, Dec. 30, 2019 in Paris, two days before New Year's Day. Security will be tight across France on New Year's Eve, with 90,000 law enforcement officers set to be deployed throughout the country, domestic intelligence chief Céline Berthon said Friday Dec.29, 2023. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)
FILE - Riot police officers patrol near the Eiffel Tower Monday, Dec. 30, 2019 in Paris, two days before New Year's Day. Security will be tight across France on New Year's Eve, with 90,000 law enforcement officers set to be deployed throughout the country, domestic intelligence chief Céline Berthon said Friday Dec.29, 2023. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)
BCPARIS (AP) — Security will be tight across France on New Year’s Eve, with 90,000 law enforcement officers set to be deployed, domestic intelligence chief Céline Berthon said Friday.
Of those, 6,000 will be in Paris, where French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said over 1.5 million people are expected to attend celebrations on the Champs-Elysees.
Speaking at a press conference, Darmanin cited a “very high terrorist threat†because, in part, of “what is happening in Israel and Palestine,†referring to the .
Darmanin said that police for the first time will be able to use drones as part of security work, and that tens of thousands of firefighters and 5,000 soldiers would also be deployed.
New Year’s Eve celebrations in Paris will center on the , including DJ sets, fireworks and video projections on the Arc de Triomphe.
The security challenge ahead of the Olympics was highlighted when a tourist was killed in a knife attack near the Eiffel Tower on Dec. 2. Large-scale attacks — such as that at the Bataclan in 2015, when Islamic extremists invaded the music hall and shot up cafe terraces, killing 130 people — also loom in memory.
in France and abroad about security for the Games that begin July 26, in just under seven months. But law enforcement officials appear eager to show off a .
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