A game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New Orleans Saints in Paris on Sunday will go ahead as planned with ramped up security, the NFL said on Tuesday, after a weekend of violence that engulfed the French capital.<\/p>\n
French officials will mount a \u201cmassive\u201d security operation for protests planned on Saturday, with troops reinforcing police, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Tuesday, after rioting and looting swept through Paris and other French cities on October 17.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe always have a very strong security presence,\u201d said Peter O\u2019Reilly, the NFL\u2019s executive vice president of club business, international and league events.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat presence will be heightened with local authorities (as we are) making sure that there\u2019s nothing more important from our standpoint than team security, fan security (and) everybody involved with this game.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Steelers-Saints game will take place at the Stade de France. It is the first regular season game that the league has ever held in the French capital, part of a record nine-game slate of international matches this season, as the NFL eyes lucrative global markets.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Reilly said that the NFL is considering adding a 10th international game to the season beginning in 2027.<\/p>\n
The violence over the weekend, some of the worst unrest France has suffered in years, followed weeks of largely peaceful student demonstrations over school conditions and the cost of living. French authorities instituted curfews in several cities on Monday.<\/p>\n
NFL officials have been on the ground in Paris for 10 days, O\u2019Reilly told reporters.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe feel confident that we would not have any impact on the broader resources needed,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s always top of mind for us and we feel confident that we wouldn\u2019t be depleting resources in a negative way around this game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New Orleans Saints in Paris on Sunday will go ahead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":935832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,1249,593,2591,1241,85],"class_list":["post-935831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-nfl","tag-paris","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}