“We are able to do it and we’ll do it,” Macron informed France’s RMC Radio and BFM TV on Monday morning. “If we expect there are safety dangers we’ll have plan Bs, and even plan Cs,” he added.
He stated that a kind of options could possibly be to carry the ceremony within the Trocadero Sq. dealing with the Eiffel Tower, the place the river route culminates. The plan is already for the ultimate parts of the occasion to occur right here.
An alternative choice is to maneuver it to a extra conventional sports activities stadium setting within the Stade de France, the nationwide enviornment to the north of Paris that is because of host monitor & area occasions.
Crowds of 300,000 spectators are anticipated alongside the Seine to attempt to seize a glimpse of the ceremony, with dozens of large screens to relay the motion. These plans have been scaled again from preliminary ambitions for some 600,000 riverside spectators, most of them free tickets.
Authorities in Paris will use pioneering surveillance expertise to observe doable threats, with plans to deploy SWAT groups the place obligatory.
The safety operation in Paris is so huge that different international locations are serving to.
Poland is among the many 46 nations so as to add its navy personnel to French operation, which itself is bolstered by 18,000 French troopers.
Talking earlier this month, Macron informed journalists that he had little question that Russia would goal the video games indirectly.
“I’ve little question, I’ve little question, together with in informational phrases. Each day, it [Russia] fuels rumors about the truth that we couldn’t do that or that, so it will be a threat,” he stated on the inauguration of an Olympic swimming pool close to Paris.
Past safety, the Olympics are additionally contending with worries in regards to the Seine’s suitability for some swimming occasions. However Macron put aside worries about air pollution ranges, saying Monday that he nonetheless deliberate to take a dip within the river earlier than the Video games start.
His interview got here a day earlier than the Olympic flame might be lit at a ceremony in Olympia, Greece, setting off a relay earlier than its arrival in Paris for the opening ceremony.
