2024-07-13 15:07:31
Two months following opening An online digital platform called Pass Jeux13 days before the opening ceremony, Gérald Darmanin took stock of the investigations carried out by the Ministry of the Interior on Saturday 13 July.
Some 770,000 administrative investigations have resulted in the exclusion of 3,512 people from the Olympic and Paralympic Games who may pose a threat to event security, it was announced on Saturday. “X”, Gerald Darmanin.
Specifically, 130 people were classified as S (national security) and 16 were classified as Islamic radicals, “Dozens of radicals with close ties to Islamist, far-left and far-right circles” Their certification was denied, the interior minister said.
In total, nearly a million people (athletes, coaches, journalists, volunteers, private security personnel and even those close to the opening ceremony) will directly or indirectly participate in this summer’s Olympic Games (July 26-August 11) and Paralympic Games The Paris Match (August 28 to September 8) will undergo a security investigation beforehand. ‘Our timing was good’ People close to the interior minister revealed that in order to achieve this goal before the start of the Olympics.
police mobilization
The first foreign reinforcements have arrived to help France provide security during the Olympics and Paralympics. Some 1,750 members of the internal security forces from some 40 countries will be mobilized to France this summer.
“A large part of them will be deployed at train stations, airports and around thirty-nine Olympic venues or sports events.”, the Interior Ministry said on Friday. These reinforcements mobilize an average of regarding 35,000 police and gendarmes and 18,000 French soldiers every day to ensure Olympic security. More than 15 million visitors are expected during the event.
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