Uefa, the Parisian city authorities and the French government will join forces to deliver the most security conscious European Championships in history according to the city’s deputy mayor with responsibility for sport and tourism Jean-Francois Martins.

The city authorities expect to the French capital to receive three million visitors during the month that Euro2016 is in progress and the local government plans a huge range of sporting and cultural events to celebrate its involvement in the tournament. But amid heightened concerns over the threat of the championship being targeted by terrorists, Martins said that security will be a top priority both in and around stadiums as well at all other locations around the city where people are expected to congregate.

“Stadiums now have the greatest security requirement after the airports,” Martins told a gathering of journalists from across Europe at the Hotel de Ville in the city’s centre on Friday morning. “Now, to get into the stadium in Europe, not just in France, the requirements are very, very high. But of course for Euro 2016 they will be even higher. So this is not a worry for us because we know that we can face it.

“Every week for the Champions League we face it and every month for the French national team in the Stade de France, we face it. And what happened on the 13th of November (at the Stade de France) proved that the system is not that bad.

“Uefa, the French government and the city have integrated the security concern from the beginning, not just since November and not since January (when the Charlie Hebdo attack took place) but from the beginning; we knew that we would have these issues and so we have sought to meet the highest requirements that we could do.”

Aside from having two stadiums staging games, Paris will have the country’s largest fanzone, close to the foot of the Eiffel Tower, where up to 120,000 people will be able to watch games and various other entertainments each day. Martins says that cancelling the fanzone because of the fear it might be targeted was never seriously considered. In the wake of last month’s attack, he says, “we asked ourselves the question but we answered it very quickly.”

The aim, he says, is to provide a safe environment for families - “not just 30 year-old men drinking beer” - and the fanzone will be surrounded a three kilometres security fence with all those attending having to pass through police checks before entering an area in which 350 private security personnel will be on patrol.

Asked what reassurance he could provide to overseas football fans weighing up whether it is safe to bring their families to France for the tournament, Martins said: “I can tell them, obviously the terrorist threat is global. It is not a French or a Parisian thing. It is a global threat. We do whatever we can do to face this threat and secure the sports venues and other gatherings. We will do the best to ensure that people will have a safe experience. It will be a European collaboration in terms of intelligence gathering.

“I cannot sign a 100 per cent guarantee for you. Nobody can do that because you cannot know what will happen but we will do all that we can do to make it the safest Euros ever I think. No Euro competition has had the sort of security that we will have for this one in Paris...and in France.

“You have filtration security with searches and electronic security, dogs and cameras. You have security inside the stadiums and before that you have an intelligence network on the transportation system. It’s a lot of different things.”

The city plans a huge range of events some of which are likely to attract large crowds to other venues around the city and these too will attract a considerable security presence, he says.

Around the Left Bank, there will be pavilions hosting cultural events put on by the 23 other competing nations. There will also be a French Football Federation backed festival touring the city’s major squares, a film festival and a programme of events aimed specifically at the capital’s young people.

Many of these are intended to promote the game. Some €2 million will be spent on improving facilities at locations across the city and a tournament for teams made up of teenagers born in 1998, the year France staged with the World Cup, will be held with the winning team getting to take on a side made up of the title winning French stars of that tournament.

In a move possibly intended to persuade the next generation that France food is better than anybody else’s, meanwhile, schools across the city will be serving dishes from the other participating countries in their canteens during the months leading up to the tournament.