Roland Garros, French Open
25 May - 8 June 2025
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Seerist Event Report
Paris and Roland-Garros 2025, The French Open
The Roland-Garros will be held between 25 May and 8 June. The event will take place at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris.
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Unrest
Protests in Paris are frequent. Most are scheduled in advance and peaceful, but spontaneous unrest can occur. Protests cause traffic disruption through road closures. Use of heavy-handed crowd control methods by police can expose bystanders to threats of injury.
Tourism-driven crime
Petty theft is common in Paris, especially in areas that see high foot traffic during the peak tourism season (May-October). Thieves increasingly single out wealthy looking tourists in affluent areas, and increasingly resort to violence to steal valuables such as watches or bags.
Terrorism
Paris remains a target for Islamist militant attacks. Attacks primarily involve unsophisticated low-cost methods such as use of bladed weapons and vehicles, and are generally committed by radicalized individuals. They are most likely to be indiscriminate and target open areas.
Unrest
Tourism-driven crime
Terrorism
Map of Paris City Center + Paris PulseAI Score
The PulseAI History and Trendline in Paris shows that over the past 60 days, stability has ranged between 57.6 and 66.6 points. The largest drops in the PulseAI score over the last 60 days were largely driven by unrest events, including protests associated with fascism and racism, rallies associated with the USNA (Union of French Workers), and Ukraine.
Venue: Stade Roland-Garros
22 Mar
11.1% drop due to unrest protesting racism & fascism
12-13 May
8.4% drop due to union-led demonstrations
Paris: Verified Security Event Trends
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Six Month Trends
Heatmap of Verified Security Events (12 Nov 2024 – 12 May 2025) - Unrest and Crime Categories -
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Six Month Trends
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Verified unrest events accounted for most security events recorded on Seerist over the last six months in Paris.
Out of the total security events which includes both unrest and crime categories, 59% of the verified unrest events ‘attack types’ were protests, followed by blockades (5%) and vandalism (4%). From a verified crime perspective, the largest number of events recorded were robberies (8%), followed by gun/firearm (7%), and knife attacks (5%).
Meanwhile, local community groups accounted for the largest portion of perpetrators in unrest events, followed by labor/ trade unions and environmentalists. Common criminals accounted for the largest portion of verified crime events.
**Seerist Methodology Note: The number of verified crime events excludes events involving unidentified perpetrators and low-level crimes, such as attacks stemming from personal disputes or minor robberies that do not involve weapons or casualties.
Verified Security Event Trends in Paris in the past six months (2024-2025)
Dec 2024
Unrest: 14 (74%) Crime: 5 (26%)
Total VEs: 19
Mar 2025
Unrest: 11 (61%) Crime: 7 (39%)
Total VEs: 18
Source: Seerist and Control Risks
Paris Verified Event by Perpetrator Breakdown
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Six Month Trends
Attack Type
Protest/demonstration
Robbery
Gun/firearm
Knife/bladed weapon
Arson/firebomb
Local community groups
Common criminals
Labour/ trade unions
Unknown
Environmentalists
Right-wing extremists
Security forces
Organised criminals
Anti- capitalists
Right to life activists
Blockades
Sticks/beating
Vandalism
Vehicle ramming
Riot
59%
8%
7%
5%
21%
Paris Verified Event by Attack Type
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Sentiment and Emotions Analysis: Roland-Garros 2025
Public Sentiment and Emotions Analysis around the Roland-Garros 2025.
Seerist has predominantly recorded positive public sentiment from 9 April 2025 to 8 May 2025 for events related to Roland-Garros 2025.
EventsAI Sentiment
Seerist recorded increases in Joy and Sadness emotions between 9 April and 8 May 2025 related to the Roland-Garros as media reports track player careers and qualifications ahead of the sporting event.
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EventsAI Emotion
Events AI Sentiment shows public sentiment in Paris.
EventsAI Emotion
Seerist Events AI Emotion uses natural language processing to identify and categorize emotions expressed in textual data.
Seerist EventsAI shows how media reports related to Roland-Garros can indicate levels of Sadness or Joy depending on the way the report has been portrayed.
Emotion: Sadness
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Emotion: Joy
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Verified Events near Roland-Garros
Rely on Verified Events, which are authenticated by a team of subject matter experts that identify, verify, and monitor events 24/7, to provide consistent coverage of potentially disruptive events as they happen.
Venue: Stade Roland-Garros
Seerist Assets enable users to set a location as an asset and monitor the radius around the asset for any custom related events.
Seerist Verified Events within a 10-kilometer radius of the Stade Roland-Garros since 1 January 2024 show that unrest events accounted for the majority of security events around the Stade Roland Garros. Unrest events predominantly took the form of protests and blockades, while targeting the government and entertainment sectors.
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Source: Seerist and Control Risks
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Monitor Security Developments in Paris using EventsAI
Events Al searches can be tailored using custom keywords to find information specifically related to unrest, sourced from reliable local and international sources. This allows users to monitor both traditional news coverage of security developments and planned unrest events published by activists on social media.
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VE Mapping within 10-km of Roland-Garros Stadium in Paris (1 Jan – 12 May 2025)
Future Events to Monitor in Paris
Future Events cover one-off or recurring events that could cause operational disruption, heightened security threats or result in significant political decisions. Found on the dedicated country page, all calendar events are given a rating for their potential severity, in addition to assessing impact types such as ‘unrest’ and ‘transportation’.
Seerist’s dedicated intelligence team reports Breaking Events as soon as they are detected – even if the information initially does not meet our standards for verification. As details around a Breaking Event emerge, we will issue new alerts and indicate when an event has been Verified (one or more Verified Events will be added) or Confirmed (for events that do not fall under our methodology).
Breaking Events are triggered by events or activities in a specific location that both have:
Potential to be high-impact incidents that could affect immediate physical or operational security
Diverge from the baseline security, operational or political environment in that location, and that we assess to be anomalous.
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Control Risks Analysis
Growing incidental threat to personnel from increasing gun violence by organised criminal groups
A video on 21 April was published online of an attack by unidentified assailants the night before, where they threw firebombs and shot at a house in Villefontaine, a suburb of Lyon. The video was signed by the DDPF (Rights for French Prisoners) group.
The attack is the latest in a series of attacks against prisons and penitentiary workers under the rubric of the DDPF, with such attacks very likely co-ordinated by drug trafficking criminal groups seeking to pressure prison workers.
The attacks come amid a steadily increasing level of gun violence linked to drug trafficking and a growing brazenness by criminals, who appear unconcerned with drawing the attention of authorities.
Legitimate businesses are unlikely to be targeted, though such violence will pose a rising incidental threat to personnel.
Attacks take place in increasingly unpredictable locations with little to no warning, potentially affecting bystanders.
Source: Control Risks analysis published on 18 March 2025
“Prison attacks: images of bullet holes and burnt-out cars in Toulon and Villepinte”, Le Figaro “‘They targeted a neighbour’s home”: a bungalow targeted by an anti-prison guard commando, set on fire and raided near Lyon”, Le Figaro “What we know about the new attacks targeting prisons and the homes of prison officers”, France TV Info “Rennes: assault rifle, injuries, arrests... what we know about the shooting at a Subway in the city”, Le Parisien “Attack on a van in the Eure: the fugitive had 13 previous convictions, according to the prosecutor”, TF1
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Attack The attack was against a house in a series of houses reportedly known to be inhabited by penitentiary workers, though the house targeted was reportedly not home to a penitentiary worker. The video shows the attackers setting fire to the door of the house and firing automatic weapons into the façade. The attack reportedly did not result in injuries.
On 21 and 22 April, several prisons were targeted with graffiti and attacks with makeshift firebombs in several areas of France, with the DDPF claiming responsibility. This follows a series of attacks against prisons on 14 and 15 April, also claimed by the DDPF. An entrance to a prison in Toulon-La Farlède in south-east France on 15 April was struck with fire from an assault rifle, and “DDPF” was painted on the prison’s door. On 14 April, three cars were set on fire outside a prison in Villepinte in the Paris metropolitan area. On the same day, three other prisons, one in Paris and two in south-east France, were also targeted.
Meanwhile, on 17 April in Rennes in the north of France, three armed men, one with an assault rifle, entered a Subway sandwich shop in the north-west Villejean area of the city and fired on two customers, injuring them. The attackers shot another person while leaving. The area is reportedly a place for selling drugs.
Drug, contraband trafficking gangs The attacks claimed by the DDPF were very likely co-ordinated by drug and contraband trafficking criminal groups seeking to pressure prison workers, likely to be able to sell drugs in prisons or for imprisoned gang members to continue operating drug dealing networks within prisons.
The attacks come amid a steadily increasing level of gun violence linked to drug trafficking and a growing brazenness by criminals, who appear unconcerned with drawing the attention of authorities, as demonstrated by the attack in Rennes. Gun violence related to drug trafficking is taking place in a growing number of cities. For example, on 12 February a man threw a grenade into a crowded bar in an area of Grenoble known for drug trafficking, injuring 15. There have been several incidents in recent years of bystanders being hurt or killed by stray bullets from shootings between gang members. In May 2024, an armoured prison vehicle transporting a member of a drug dealing gang was ambushed by armed men, who shot the prison personnel and freed the prisoner.
Incidental threat Legitimate businesses are unlikely to be targeted in such incidents. However, such violence poses a growing incidental threat to personnel. Attacks take place in increasingly unpredictable locations with little to no warning, potentially affecting bystanders. This is especially the case given criminals’ demonstrated growing lack of concern for bystander casualties as well as their lack of concern for drawing attention from authorities, previously a mitigating factor.
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