Tight Security at Bernabeu for El Classico after Paris attacks

Real Madrid authorities have taken drastic measures to beef up security at the Bernabéu for Saturday's game between Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​following the recent terrorist attacks in Paris.

No less than 129 people were killed in six different attacks in the French capital Paris on Friday night, when two explosions took place outside the Stade de France and one of the attackers was unable to gain access to the stadium for security. .

Due to this, the Spain-Belgium friendly was canceled after the Belgian authorities requested a suspension.

Madrid's government delegate, Concepción Dancausa, told AS that more security measures had been implemented at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium to beef up security for this weekend's La Liga game, due to concerns that high-rated games like El-Classico are a target.

"We'll have to look inside the sandwiches to make sure everything is covered," said the politician.
"Obviously we will take all necessary measures and, of course, we will take into account what happened in France and reinforce some of the measures in some way."

“All games like this are always considered high risk [now] It's more or less the same as normal, but with tighter control. Surveillance of the entry and exit of fans from the stadium will be more exhaustive ”.

Javier Tebas, president of La Liga, told AS that up to a billion viewers will watch the game on television on Saturday night.

“It's hard to say for sure, since we're talking about potential, Tebas said, it would get more than 500 million viewers, between 500 and 600 million would be my rough estimate.”

The President is working hard to promote La Liga and is aiming to increase its global broadcast revenue.

Some ideas had been raised about staging La Liga matches abroad, but the president said that the Clásico would not be among the matches to be played outside Spain.

“El Classico will never be played outside of Spain,” said Tebas. “It is a key game in the competition of our championship and of great international prestige. We are going to study the possibility of playing some games outside Spain, but at the moment it is not part of our international expansion plans ”.