“Answers” will be provided “in November” following a defense council on the question of spectator gauges on the high quays of the Seine in Paris during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics in 2024, said Thursday, October 26, Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra. For several months, the question of the number of spectators able to attend the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, for the first time in history outside a stadium and on the Seine, has been the subject of negotiations between the town hall of Paris, the organizing committee and the police headquarters. The number was initially 500,000 free places, with 100,000 paid places on the lower platforms. But this figure has still not been made official. Since the attack in Arras, where a teacher was killed, the terrorist threat has been raised in France, and a war was triggered by an attack launched by Hamas in Israel on October 7, a context which raised new security fears around the Olympics. On Sunday, former Sports Minister David Douillet pleaded for a “plan B” for the opening ceremony for security reasons linked to the current geopolitical context. A hypothesis that the head of the organizing committee, Tony Estanguet, has ruled out, assuring Tuesday that “security conditions” will be there. The Minister of Sports also confirmed on BFM-TV that the ceremony will take place “well” on the Seine.
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Paris 2024: “answers” on spectator gauges for the ceremony “in November”
