Editorial. Paris 2024: Olympic security
The will of the organizers of the Olympic Games and the State is to make Paris 2024 a great celebration of sport and French know-how but also a unifying event for all French people. The Olympic ideal must flow from the capital to every town and hamlet in France, making the French proud and sportier.
So far no one sees any harm in this meeting despite a few hiccups. Only, the summer of 2024 was also intended to be an event summer like any other. Even if their weight will be colossal and the desires of the organization gigantic in the image of the opening ceremony on the seine , there will not be only the Olympic Games in life. However, it appears that the summer of 2024 will be Olympic or it will not be. The reason: the security of the event and of Paris.
Thus, the information relating to the total mobilization of the security forces to protect the Olympic Games and carry out the usual missions is worrying and arouses incomprehension and anger. Music festivals, other major sporting events including the Tour de France, popular events such as the Lille sale have learned from Gérald Darmanin before the Senate and at France Inter that they will have to postpone (this is the case with the Tour) or cancel their appointment. No one had seen it coming.
The Minister of the Interior, in a projection of which he has the secret, did not go there by four paths to announce event reports or cancellations requiring the support of law enforcement. He sent the sorrows back to the prefects and the ministers of Sports and Culture. As for the gendarmes and the police, they learned at the same time that between June and September 2024, they will not have holidays.
Even if the question of the security of a world event expected by France for 100 years is central, the spirit of harmony sought is already weakened.