INVESTIGATION – Owner of the Dionysian enclosure, the State is opening the file for the future of the Stade de France before the end of the concession granted to the Vinci-Bouygues duo until June 2025. Two options are on the executive’s table: the continuation of the current model or the sale of the legendary enclosure. A highly symbolic and sensitive subject, to which the Head of State Emmanuel Macron pays great attention.
He vibrated on the two whims of Zinédine Zidane one summer evening in the final of the 1998 World Cup against Brazil, saw Johnny Hallyday descend as if by magic from the sky from a helicopter before a historic concert in front of more than 80,000 spectators, lent his track on the heels of the greatest sprinter in history Usain Bolt and more recently housed the exploits of Antoine Dupont and co with the XV of France during the Grand Slam in the 2022 Six Nations Tournament. Since its inauguration during a France-Spain football match on January 28, 1998 in a polar cold and on a grated lawn, the Stade de France hosted 550 events, and more than 35 million spectators filled its stands.
Theater of dreams, the enclosure in the shape of a giant flying saucer placed on the edge of the A1 motorway in Saint-Denis, at the gates of Paris, has entered the collective memory of the French for years. These are fiercely attached to what has become the home of the Blues of football and…
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