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LThe safety system put in place throughout the Paris 2024 Olympic Games is taking form. In complete, 326,000 individuals will have the ability to attend the river ceremony on the Seine, removed from the preliminary introduced variety of 600,000.
In element, 222,000 individuals benefiting from free tickets will have the ability to watch the ceremony from the excessive platforms, and 104,000 from the low platforms and sure bridges. Estimates additionally carry the variety of spectators from buildings overlooking the Seine to 200,000. This is the primary time {that a} Games opening ceremony will carry collectively so many individuals since such a occasion normally takes place in stadiums.
READ ALSO Paris 2024: right here is the official poster for the Olympic GamesAccording to the prefect of police Laurent Nuñez, the upkeep of second-hand booksellers on the banks of the Seine has triggered a discount within the variety of 78,000 spectators.
Closed airspace inside a radius of 150 kilometers round Paris
Airspace can be closed inside a radius of 150 kilometers across the capital from 7 p.m. “ It’s quite historic that we completely shut down the airports,” remarked Gérald Darmanin. The minister reported that helicopters will fly over the ceremony, with drones, “ to be able to keep snipers stationary to follow possible complicated teams or places about which the teams have doubts,” provides the minister.
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SECURING THE OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES.An distinctive occasion, distinctive safety! An unprecedented safety system can be put in place in order that the largest international occasion is a giant celebration. pic.twitter.com/KTsC2YckCk
— Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) March 5, 2024
180 boats will take part within the ceremony. The athletes will parade aboard 94 of them. The Greek delegation will depart first and the French final. A present across the historical past of France should happen.
Law enforcement mobilized
45,000 gendarmes and law enforcement officials can be on website to oversee the ceremony, supported by the GIGN, the Raid and the BRI. On common, 35,000 inside safety forces can be deployed per day for the Games. 90% of the cell pressure items can be accountable for making certain the safety of the occasion. Bonuses can be distributed to the employees who can be moved to the territory for the event. They can attain as much as 1,900 euros for brokers in Île-de-France.
READ ALSO The Brav-N, nautical department of the Brav-M, can be current on the opening of the 2024 OlympicsFor the second, Gérald Darmanin assures that there’s “no no clear threat to the Olympics today.” Six individuals on file S wishing to work for the occasion had been excluded.
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