Paris 2024 Olympics: are the Games made for the summer festivals whose holding is threatened?

Will the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games (JOP) get the better of the big summer festivals? “The principle is the postponement or cancellation of major sporting or cultural events mobilizing numerous police and gendarmerie forces,” warned Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, on October 25 before the Senate. A small bomb which particularly scalded a world of Culture just convalescing after the Covid crisis, thereby reviving this unpleasant aftertaste left by the “Non-essential” label which had then been attached to it.