About 11,000 police and security forces will provide security in Paris during the celebration of the Bastille Day on July 14, said the prefect of the Metropolitan Police Michel Delpues.
3,500 police and gendarmes will protect the parade on the Champs Elysees, which will visit the US President Donald Trump, Reuters reported.
In the protection of Paris will also be involved six river vessels patrolling the Seine, and a US-made Reaper unmanned by the Air Force Base in Cognac (Department of Charente). At the same time in the metropolitan region activate the system of recognition and destruction of drones-intruders.
In recent months in Paris, several terrorist attacks and attempts to commit a terrorist attack in the heart of the city – on the Champs Elysees and near the Notre Dame Cathedral. In one of them a policeman died.