PARIS: The unprecedented opening ceremony planned for the 2024 Paris Olympics, just 500 days away, promises to be both spectacular and a serious security headache, with the arrangements still being worked out by anxious officials. The vision, as announced by French President Emmanuel Macron, is to
The unprecedented opening ceremony planned for the 2024 Paris Olympics, just 500 days away, promises to be both spectacular and a serious security headache, with the arrangements still being worked out by anxious officials.
"Everyone is working and working an enormous amount," one senior French official involved in the process told AFP on condition of anonymity."A ceremony like this has never taken place before. But we'll manage it, we'll be ready." The total number of spectators allowed to line the 6km route is still up in the air, with the final figure expected to be somewhere between 400,000 to 600,000.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, who faced severe criticism for his handling of the Champions League fiasco, travelled to the World Cup in Qatar in November last year on a fact-finding mission.
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