Monday, May 16, 2016
Stretched and stressed, French police prepare for soccer spectacle (Reuters)
By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) - France's stretched police force has had to contend with two militant attacks in a year and regular street protests, and now it faces the task of keeping millions of soccer fans safe when the country hosts the Euro 2016 tournament next month. The French force of police and gendarmes numbers almost 200,000, having suffered around 13,000 job cuts since 2007 as the government sought to reduce public spending.
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