Darmanin explains what it could take to make sure the extent of safety of the Olympic Games in a sustainable method | EUROtoday
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DThe Olympic Games have been “secure but not safe.” This is how the resigning Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, described the Olympic Games which have simply ended. Advance preparation with the intelligence companies and an enormous police presence throughout the occasion have been the keys to success in line with the minister. He is now calling for an additional enhance within the variety of cops and a reform of the Paris police headquarters.
In an interview with Figaro printed Monday, August 12, Gérald Darmanin is happy with the graceful working of the Games within the capital from July 26 to August 11. “The police and gendarmes were able to be present without being oppressive. Thanks to them, we had a secure but not safe Olympic Games,” he observes. The man who has been a tenant of Place Beauvau for over 4 years lists the explanations for this success: “The home searches, the reporting requirements, the house arrests, not to mention the intelligence techniques were effective.” The minister additionally factors out that, “for the first time, the algorithms were also applied to video surveillance cameras.”
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High terrorist risk
“More than 700 administrative measures were taken at my request. During the opening ceremony, more than 400 individuals were monitored using physical and technical means. We thus applied the precautionary principle while respecting our laws,” continues Gérald Darmanin, who places ahead a complete of three plans for violent actions that have been foiled.
Results to be learn in line with him by way of the prism of an “increasingly degraded” geopolitical context, citing the conflict in Ukraine, the scenario within the Middle East and the resurgence of the Islamic State. “With the Olympic Games taking place in the middle of the city in Paris, Marseille, Saint-Denis… the terrorist threat was therefore strong and new fronts were opening up,” analyses the resigning Minister of the Interior.
60,000 extra employees
Regarding the post-Olympic interval, Gérald Darmanin states that “if you want security as high as during the Games, you have to continue to increase the number of personnel.” “To ensure the same police presence as today, 60,000 more personnel would be needed,” he broadcasts concretely. “There is an obligation not to touch the budgetary resources of the Ministry of the Interior. Without forgetting the necessary simplification of criminal procedure,” insists the tenant of Place Beauvau.
Another possibility: “continue to reform”. “After the reform of the national police, which I successfully completed, we must reform the Paris police headquarters, which will undoubtedly be the major task of the future Minister of the Interior.” For Gérald Darmanin, who appears to be making a brand new U-turn on his presence within the subsequent authorities, the primary impediment to sustaining a degree of safety much like the Games lies within the demonstrations on public roads. “They consume a lot of personnel with a potentially negative impact on public opinion. Everything will depend on the social climate in the fall. If we have to mobilize for the demonstrations, it will be more complex to fight against delinquency,” he explains.
Finally, the minister assures that cops and gendarmes “are respectful when they are respected. They adapt to the people they have in front of them, and when they are not insulted, things always go better.” The Games had proven a number of scenes of complicity between the police and vacationers.
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