The city of Dugny (Seine-Saint-Denis) announced on Tuesday March 12 that it had named all of the streets of the 2024 Olympic media village with women’s names, which will welcome journalists during the competition before being converted into a neighborhood. habitation. During a ceremony held on March 8, International Women’s Day, the eight streets of the new district received “names of local or national female personalities“, indicated Mayor (DVD) Quentin Gesell in a press release. This 100% feminine denomination is “the opportunity to honor the crucial role of women in our society but also to increase the presence of feminine names in the public space” of this popular commune of 11,300 inhabitants, declared the municipality. Among the personalities chosen are well-known names such as the lawyer Gisèle Halimi or the artist and resistance fighter Joséphine Baker. But there are also women with more notoriety. local or confidential, like Eve Chastagnol, a centenarian from the city who died in 2020, or Caroline Aigle, the first French woman to become a fighter pilot in 1999. Their names were chosen during an internet consultation last year. Built for the 2024 Olympics, the media village this summer will welcome 1,580 journalists out of the 26,000 accredited, mainly technicians working opposite one of the press centers, that of Le Bourget. It will be formally inaugurated at the end of March.
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