2024-04-25 15:17:57
Published on April 25, 2024 at 5:17 p.m. – updated on April 25, 2024 at 5:48 p.m.
During a press conference this Thursday followingnoon in Paris, Tony Estanguet, present alongside the Paris police chief Laurent Nunez, gave an update on the organization of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games 2024, still planned for the Seine. The president of the organizing committee wanted to be reassuring.
“The ambition of this ceremony is always the same.” This Thursday followingnoon, during a press conference organized three months before the start of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games (July 26 to August 11), Tony Estanguet wanted to be reassuring regarding the organization of the opening ceremony, still scheduled on the Seine as required by plan A desired by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron in person (plans B, with a withdrawal to the Trocadéro, and C – a return to a much more classic, at the Stade de France) have also been planned in the event that serious security threats threaten the smooth running of the event. “The ambition of this ceremony is always the same. It is to show a unique ceremony open to 220,000 people on the high quays and 100,000 on the low quays, a ceremony 6 km long,” explained the president of the organizing committee, ensuring that the security aspect mattered to him the most. “Safety is priority number one. The Organizing Committee took its full part in this question of security. We are well aware of the context in which we find ourselves. We worked hand in hand to define and anticipate. »
Hidalgo: “The equivalent of five Stade de France”
“We are in our transition times with safety as our number one priority. All the pieces of the puzzle are put together around security,” added the former three-time Olympic canoe champion, accompanied during this press conference by Paris police prefect Laurent Nunez and Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris, who also provided an update on the organization of this opening ceremony on the Seine. “The principle is the same as for an Olympic site: an organizing perimeter and a traffic ban perimeter with an exemption. For the anti-terrorism perimeter, with checkpoints, we include the entire first row of buildings on the banks of the Seine. We wanted to include all the buildings that had a visual on the parade. The implementation deadline is eight days before,” explained Laurent Nunez, specifying that there would also be “a perimeter prohibiting motorized traffic.” Always with the same goal that “life goes on” and that “all people who live in the area where they work will be able to return there with an exemption”. A point also addressed by Anne Hidalgo. “The local residents are around 20,000 people directly impacted by the opening ceremony, that is to say the area with a direct view of the Seine. These people will have invitations and support so that their lives are not too negatively impacted. » A precaution which also applies to the period which will precede this ceremony, according to the Mayor of Paris, “with the construction of this large stadium, which is the equivalent of five Stade de France. »
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