During the Paris Olympic Games, in the summer of 2024, a QR code will be necessary to circulate within a perimeter around the Seine and the competition sites. The platform to request it opens Friday May 10. Registrations will be possible from Monday May 13.
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Less than 80 days before the opening of this summer’s Olympic Games, the QR Code for getting around Paris will soon be available. The platform for making the request opened this Friday, May 10, as announced by Paris police prefect Laurent Nuñez on France Info. Registrations will begin Monday May 13.
Concretely, this barcode will be installed on the phone or printed on paper. Depending on the areas concerned, the QR code will not be compulsory 24 hours a day, nor throughout Paris. But, as soon as there is an event, all around the stadium or a competition venue, it will be obligatory.
Prevent any intrusion
The aim is to streamline arrivals around the Olympic sites. Around 15 million visitors are expected in Paris during the Games. All people must therefore be identifiable, that is to say that no unknown person who has no reason to be in the area concerned will be able to enter. Because around a stadium, there are potentially several thousand people gathered in a huge crowd where the risk of threat is more present.
The QR Code is quite simply a filtering which will be compulsory for people – on foot, by bike or even by car – wanting to travel near Olympic sites. Concretely, around the competition sites, the entire area will be closed to cars. There are exceptions, but in very specific cases and upon presentation of a QR code. For example for law enforcement, emergency vehicles such as ambulances or doctors, as well as residents with private parking within the perimeter.
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Transport traffic, one of the main concerns
It is the metro which will mainly be disrupted. No station located inside a secure zone will be served. We will therefore be able to travel on the metro, but not stop.
Public transport is one of the main concerns around the Olympics. Île-de-France-Mobilités, which manages public transport in the region, has therefore created its “Public Transport Paris 2024” application. Translated into several languages, it helps guide Olympic tourists to the event sites with the most efficient route.
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The opening ceremony, highlights of the Games
Some 300,000 people are expected along the Seine for the event. On the river, the delegations, on board boats, will parade in front of the public over a distance of 6 kilometers, with artists around for the show.
A plan B is planned by the government if the ceremony cannot take place for reasons security reasons. But to avoid plan B, a security perimeter – Internal Security and the Fight against Terrorism (Silt) – will be set up. All areas of the Parisian river will therefore be closed off one week before the ceremony, which must take place on July 26.
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