2023-12-20 22:28:37
Will the grand opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games necessarily take place on the Seine on the evening of July 26? The President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron assured Wednesday that there were obviously “plan Bs” for the start of the Olympic Games in France, “in the event of a potential threat”.
“There are obviously plans B, plans C, etc.,” for the organization of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games, assured the Head of State on France 5, while the President of the Les Républicains party Éric Ciotti had recently suggested giving up organizing it on the Seine, because security might not be guaranteed there.
“If you have a series of attacks…”
This plan B would intervene “in the event of a potential threat”, “if you have a rise in international or regional tensions, if you have a series of attacks” as in November 2015, he explained.
“We will welcome the whole world, the Olympic and Paralympic athletes, and France will show itself to the whole world,” underlined the Head of State. We are preparing a unique opening ceremony, which I hope will make the French proud, and will be a moment of beauty, art, celebration of sport and our values, the scene of which will be the Seine and our capital . »
“Should we immediately no longer have any ambition and say we are repatriating? No ! We are getting organized,” he insisted that if it were to take place “tomorrow”, it would be on the Seine.
His position goes against the grain of what has been mentioned by the authorities until now. At the beginning of December, the Minister of Sports and Olympic Games Amélie Oudéa-Castéra believed that there was “no plan B”. “We have a plan A in which there are several second plans,” she slipped into the microphone of France Inter. These could lead the organizers to lower the sail, in particular by reducing the number of spectators envisaged on both banks of the river.
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