2024-07-26 16:23:16
The inhabitants of the river are at the forefront. Everyone is able to invite a handful of hand-picked guests, whose list is duly approved in advance by the Police District, with photographs and copies of identification documents. But on the big day, some of them, even if they have a VIP bracelet, do not escape the orders and authorization to reach their host. Some of these happy few had to walk more kilometers – and longer – than expected.
Spectators on balconies, Paris, July 26, 2024.
When most of the guests joined Gérard Feldzer’s vehicle crossing the Léopold-Sédar-Senghor footbridge (formerly the Solférin footbridge), in the morning, Dominique and Bruno passed by five minutes. At 2:05 pm, the bridge was closed for my evacuation. “When people are crossing in the other direction, we are prevented from crossing. Even if the police chief was in front of him, he wouldn’t let him pass, the agent told me. said Dominique, white pants and sweater, small white canvas shoes, white scarf and long blond bob.
This is this “A traveler, even a traveler, but not in Paris”, and his companion, Bruno, went for a two-hour long walk in the 8th arrondissement. Metro at Solférino to Madeleine station. Then they went up to Saint-Augustin, before returning down through Franklin-Roosevelt.
Geoffroy, 68, a former pilot and motorcyclist, who, he admits, “haven’t taken the metro for fifteen years”, have planned this by ordering a scooter on the Internet. “It was delivered to me yesterday. I put it together and tried it in the apartment, and I came from Puteaux with it this morning. The host is on the phone with other guests, who are at one of the security points, who ask you to send them the necessary credentials to get on board.
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