For those in Toulouse who still have the heart to follow the semi-finals and the final of the World Cup, you will have to fall back on the bars option. The famous “rugby village”, which boasted of housing the “largest fan zone in France” has in fact closed, definitively, and very prematurely, its stands this Thursday. “The security context changed after the terrorist attack in Arras which triggered the rise to the “Emergency Attack” level of the Vigipirate plan. Internal security forces and municipal police are heavily mobilized to monitor places of worship and schools,” explains Toulouse Métropole in a press release.
“In view of this news and the defeat of the French team”, the community anticipates “gloomy” attendance for the next matches. She therefore decided “to reduce costs and in particular security expenses”.
Some 200,000 spectators vibrated, then cried, on this spot in the capital of the Oval.