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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 appeal of such a bold statement of French ambition and art de vivre to a global TV audience of hundreds of millions is clear. Turning it into reality is said to be giving planners cold sweats. The French police “have never worked on a scenario like this”, a senior security source told AFP, again on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.
Around 70,000 seats on the lower banks or on bridges are set to go on sale from May 11, starting at 90 euros and topping out at 2,700 euros. While there, he warned of the dangers of “a drone loaded with explosives that falls on a crowd, on an exposed team, on an opening ceremony like at the Olympic Games, for example”.
With the Games set to take place from July 26 to Aug 11, the interior ministry must also find the required number of officers at the height of the summer holiday period.
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