France said Wednesday it will send more than 60,000 police to give security to Euro 2016 as it promised to do "everything conceivable to stay away from a terrorist assault" amid the competition that begins one month from now.
The remarks from Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve came after the Stade de France in Paris, which will have the occasion's opening match and last, plummeted into confusion Saturday before the national glass last after smoke bombs were set off inside the stadium, starting frenzy among group that bunched at the stadium's ways out.
Cazeneuve told the games day by day L'Equipe that the match between Paris Saint-Germain and Marseille "did not serve as a test" for Euro 2016.
"It was not the same open, not the same coordinator, nor the same security arrangement," he said. "Nonetheless, what happened will be considered" in front of the month-long football competition, which kicks of June 10.
"Our goal is that the Euro is a major merry social occasion, yet we owe the French reality. Zero percent safety measure implies 100 percent hazard, however 100 percent insurance does not mean a zero percent hazard," he said.
"We are doing everything to keep away from a terrorist assault, and we are planning to react. More than 60,000 police will be on the ground."
The Stade de France was focused by suicide aircraft amid the assaults by the Islamic State bunch on the French capital in November. The attackers attempted unsuccessfully to get inside the security border.
Cazeneuve said security inside the stadium is the obligation of UEFA, while wellbeing at the "fan zones" — which will suit seven million individuals in 10 host urban areas the nation over — is the order of private security specialists.
"Fan zones are secure spaces, I took the choice to force security pat-downs at doors, to utilize metal indicators and to boycott sacks inside. On the off chance that there were no fan zones, fans would regroup in a specially appointed setting and the danger (of an assault) would be more prominent," he said.
Notwithstanding the bulked up measures, he said there was no specific danger against the football competition.
"As of now we don't have a particular risk to a particular group or a particular player, a particular match, or a particular fan zone," he said.
He included that dissents would not be banned, but rather did not preclude conceivable turmoil as the nation is grasped by a noteworthy work strike.
"It remains an open plausibility… that security can't be ensured by lawfulness powers."
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