France says to deploy 43,000 police, troops at D-Day celebrations
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Paris: France will deploy around 43,000 police and troops to provide security at ceremonies marking 80 years since the World War II D Day landings on...
Paris: France will deploy around 43,000 police and troops to provide security at ceremonies marking 80 years since the World War II D-Day landings on the northern French coast, with a million people expected to attend, the interior minister said Thursday.
In June, France marks the 80th anniversary of the 1944 Normandy landings, and 25 heads of government or state are expected to attend, including US President Joe Biden, King Charles III and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky.
An "exceptional force" of 43,000 police officers, gendarmes, firefighters and soldiers will be mobilised in France from June 5 to June 7 to keep order at the ceremonies, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.
Nearly a million people are expected to attend around thirty ceremonies organised over the three days in Brittany and Normandy in northwest France.
"This is the biggest commemorative event in our history," Darmanin told reporters.
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