2024-08-23 18:50:00
LTraffic will be “complicated” in the center of Paris on August 28, the day of the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games which will be held in the Place de la Concorde, police officer Laurent Nuñez warned on Friday.
“We look forward to it”
During a press conference to present the security plan for the Paralympic Games (August 28-September 8) before Cojo President Tony Estanguet, Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo and Pierre Rabadan, responsible for sports and Olympics in the city. councilor, Laurent Nuñez explained that part of the anti-terrorist security zone that is prohibited to traffic will be activated from 7 am, and all at 2 pm.
50,000 people are expected for this celebration, with 35,000 spectators in the stands at the Place de la Concorde, with 5,000 athletes and 170 Olympic representatives, and 15,000 free spaces open to the public at the bottom of the Champs- Élysées, on either side of the other. side of the road.
Regarding the free access boxes, the police chief explained that they will open to the public at 5 pm. “We look forward to it. The measurements are limited,” he warns, suggesting to come as soon as it opens. Searches and pat-downs will be done by police officers at the entry points (three in total).
17 air zones in Paris
In order to be able to see the ceremony on big screens, the Paris city hall will open 17 areas organized in various places in the capital.
The anti-terrorist security zone will be extended during the opening ceremony in the Tuileries garden welcoming the basin, which will rise into the Paris sky in the evening. The police station is expecting a large number of visitors to this site. Citizens will have to submit to searches or pat-downs to get there.
4,400 athletes will compete over 11 days of competition and 549 events across 20 sites. Up to 25,000 police and gendarmes will be mobilized, as well as 10,000 private security agents and 8,000 soldiers from the Sentinel Service, during the these Paralympic games.
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