2024-01-07 18:28:35
Guest of the show Bartoli Time, on RMC, the Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra responded to the concerns of the French regarding the transport offer and security during the opening ceremony which will take place on July 26.
Seven months before the Paris Olympic Games, the pressure is becoming more and more intense on the shoulders of the Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, who is multiplying in the media to respond to the concerns of Ile-de-France residents regarding public transport notably. “We will be ready”: such is the slogan hammered out by the Minister of Sports, once again on RMC, this Sunday, in the show Bartoli Time. “We have designed transport plans with plans B, plans C, we have infrastructures which are developing with work which is on time, we are within budget, therefore confidence”, wanted to reassure the minister, conscious of elsewhere, the worrying deterioration of service on certain metro lines in particular.
“We have to move forward, look at our challenges. I understand perfectly when we highlight that there are a certain number of difficulties in transport, recognizes Oudéa-Castéra, on RMC. We have to be lucid about all that, aware of our challenges, but we are at work, extraordinarily hard at work, to be ready when the time comes.” Raised on the question of security in view of the Olympic Games in the capital and in particular the opening ceremony on the Seine, the Minister of Sports said she was “totally uninhibited” on the subject, assuming the existence of a “certain number of adjustment variables” likely to compensate for a possible problem that arises, jeopardizing the initial plan.
“Do not make cookie-cutter announcements”
The organizers of the Games have promised a grandiose ceremony during which delegations of athletes will descend the Seine aboard barges in front of hundreds of thousands of spectators. A spectacle which poses a major logistical challenge to the authorities. Last year, the Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra had already mentioned “several Bs plans”, ensuring that the relocation of the ceremony was not the government’s working hypothesis. The attack on December 2, which occurred near the Eiffel Tower, raised the question of security during the opening ceremony. Eric Ciotti, president of the Les Républicains party, even suggested giving it up, because security could not be ensured.
This Sunday, while recalling that “this unprecedented ceremony on the Seine” was “at the heart of our ambition for iconic Games”, the Minister of Sports indicated that the organizers could play at the appropriate time on “the very nature of the parade artistic”, or “the gauge on the high platforms” or even “the management of security perimeters”. “Now, if there is a context that hardens dramatically, of course there needs to be an alternative,” she admitted. What would this plan B be? A ceremony at the Stade de France? “We must be professional to the end and not make sweeping announcements at the wrong time, everything in its time,” evaded the Minister of Sports.
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