2023-10-12 08:00:06
“We have to move quickly, not procrastinate. » Addressed in mid-July to the public authorities, the call to order from the first president of the Court of Auditors was firm. “Decisions must be made by October at the latest”, had pressed Pierre Moscovici about recourse to the operational reserves of the army, police and gendarmerie. The objective is to compensate for the shortcomings of a private security sector already lacking in manpower well before the Olympic and Paralympic Games (JOP), when it is supposed to mobilize 17,000 to 22,000 agents per year. day during the summer of 2024.
An interministerial committee devoted to security, particularly that of Olympic sites, is due to take place on October 20. The opportunity to satisfy the request of the Court of Auditors and to formalize this call to internal forces and the army? “There will be no communication at this stage”we respond to the Ministry of the Interior.
However, this recourse is not ” A taboo “, as repeated in recent months by the Minister of Sports and Olympic Games, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, and Tony Estanguet, the President of the Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Cojop ).
It is even less so since it was anticipated in 2019 by the organizers of Paris 2024 and included in their plan, with the associated financing, according to a person familiar with this matter. With the idea of avoiding what happened during the London Olympics in 2012: the British government having to urgently mobilize some 4,700 soldiers after the company G4S had shown itself incapable of providing security personnel. enough.
Replenishing the ranks of private security
If this use of reserves from the security forces and the army has not been made official to date, it is because the French public authorities did not want to accept as a given that the private security sector does not can be at the Olympic meeting.
The desire was to remobilize this sector and complete a process aimed at helping it replenish its ranks – and not only with a view to the Games. It was therefore decided to keep quiet about the fact that this appeal was planned, according to a source close to the matter. Questioned on this subject, the Ministry of the Interior points out that “it’s not Paris 2024 that decides” and that the“we don’t need to communicate at this stage”.
In Ile-de-France, where a good part of the sites will be concentrated, “There is a colossal amount of work being done, we must see it through to the end”explained, at the beginning of September, Marc Guillaume, the prefect of the region, who supervises an operation aimed at “train and hire 15,000 people by private security companies”.
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