Euro 2024: why several roads connecting Belgium and France to the border will be closed on the day of the round of 16 ?

Certaines portions de la frontières franco-belge seront fermées ce lundi. MAXPPP

Des routes reliant la France et la Belgique seront fermées lundi 1er juillet pendant le match France-Belgique, en huitièmes de finale de l’Euro 2024 de football, ont annoncé dix maires et bourgmestres de communes frontalières qui souhaitent "prévenir les débordements éventuels"

"Blocking or filtering roadblocks will be organized at the various border crossings, starting at 4 p.m. Monday, two hours before the start of the day ;send of the match, indicate the ten city councilors, two Belgians and eight French, in a joint press release.

They will only be lifted “during the night, if the context allows it”, it is still written. However, three bridges will remain open within this perimeter, indicated the town of Comines on Facebook.

About twenty kilometers

The municipalities concerned, including Armentières (25,000 inhabitants), cover the border for around twenty kilometers, on the portion where it is drawn by the Lys river, to the northwest of the metropolis of Lille.

These measures aim to "prevent possible excesses", write the elected officials, who specify that "bans on gatherings will be taken to prevent and repress hostile gatherings" . A feeling of revenge has driven the Red Devils since the semi-final of the 2018 World Cup, lost 1-0 to the Blues, which had deeply and lastingly upset them.