France is to mobilise a record number of police at each Rugby World Cup match after the chaos at the Champions League football final at the Stade de France last year, at which supporters were teargassed, shoved and pickpocketed.
The French sports minister, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, said there had been “considerable progress” in the year since the Champions League fiasco. “We have learned from the difficult events we went through and implemented a whole series of improvements,” she said.
