Up to 25,000 police officers and gendarmes will be deployed to ensure security during the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games, French Interior Minister Géral Darmanin announced on Tuesday.
“The maximum number of police officers will be 25,000 in Ile de France and Chateauroux (where the shooting competitions will take place),” the French minister said at a press conference.
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“We will have the support of the three intervention forces” with 300 troops and “100,000 private security agents,” said Géral Darmanin.
As for the security of “sensitive” delegations such as Israel, “it will be taken care of in the same way as in the Olympic Games,” said Darmanin, who explained that Israel will have 27 athletes, 2 referees and the president of the Paralympic Committee who will be “permanently protected.”
Tony Estanguet, president of the Paris Games organising committee, welcomed the decision to maintain “the level of mobilisation to ensure the safety of the Paralympic Games torch relay”.
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The Paralympic opening ceremony will take place on 28 August on the Place de la Concorde and will also be directed by Thomas Jolly (like the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games). The Swede Alexander Ekman will be in charge of the choreography for the 150 dancers, of whom around twenty will be disabled people.
These Paralympic Games will coincide with the return of society in September, both in schools and in political life, which is pending the formation of a new government.
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