With France on “emergency alert” after threats from ISIS K and the attack in Russia, the Olympic Games which will begin on July 26 and end on August 14 they are at risk. Various foreign nations They will send at least 2,000 soldiers to help ensure the safety of the competition, which will attract 15 million tourists.
France he requested the help of the army and the police to 46 countries and 35 have already responded favorably. Some foreign policemen they can carry weaponsespecially those delegations exposed to terrorist attacks.
“Several foreign nations will strengthen us in some critical areas, such as dog capabilities, where the needs are enormous during the Olympic Games,” the French Armed Forces Ministry said Thursday.
France plans to deploy 35,000 law enforcement personnel during the Olympic Games and 45,000 on the day of the opening ceremony on the Seine.
Poland sends soldiers
Poland will send soldiers to help secure the Paris 2024 Olympics.
This practice is common at mass events like this one, which brings together crowds of different languages. French gendarmes They participated in securing seats during the World Cup in Qatar, For example. They sent 226 security personnel and 167 gendarmes in charge of the anti-drone fight to Qatar.
At the Olympics in Britain, 1,200 soldiers were deployed to protect the 2012 London sporting event after G4S, the private company responsible for security, did not provide enough guardsAccording to the government.
Final touches on the sites that will be used at the Paris Games. Photo: Reuters160 representatives of European security forces spread across the territory attended the Rugby World Cup in France, mainly to control British and potential fans. thugs.
The fear of attack
The project is that these foreign forces go to places where their compatriots are present. The German federal police will go to the Jean Bouin stadium, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, and help secure the cities where the competitions will take place. This is the main concern of the French authorities due to the fear of an attack.
According to the French Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, 18,000 French soldiers they will be
Journalists visit the stadium under construction for equestrian activities. Photo: Reutersavailable for the Olympic Games, including 3,000 aviators in charge of aerial surveillance.
International coalition
Hours earlier, the Polish defense minister had said his country would send military reinforcements to France.
“The Polish Armed Forces will join the international coalition created by France to support the preparation and security of the 2024 Summer Olympic Games,” Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said, without specifying the number of soldiers deployed.
View of one of the Olympic stadiums. Photo: Valery HACHE/AFP“An operational force, made up of our soldiers, will be deployed in Paris, including drug sniffer dogs. The main focus will be on training operations explosive detection and counter-terrorism”, according to the Polish minister.
According to the spokesperson of the Polish Army General Staff, “decisions have already been made”. “We are creating a working group for the Olympic Games,” Joanna Klejszmit told AFP, adding that French army chief of staff Thierry Burkhard visited Poland on Thursday.
The biggest challenge: the ceremony on the Seine
The biggest challenge will be the opening ceremony along the Seinewhere there will be at least 270,000 people and 170 ships.
While in Russia, the Islamic State K has just carried out the deadliest attack on European soil by ISIS and calls on “lone wolves” to act during Ramadan in Europe, the United States and Israel, the security environment is tensefour months before the start of the sporting competition.
An example of what the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games will look like. Photo: Florian HULLEU/AFPThe French government decided, immediately after the attack in Moscow, to take the Vigipirate plan to the highest level: ““urgent attack warning.”
At least 130 French schools across the country were threatened with bombs and 20 were evacuated by police between Wednesday and Thursday.
A director of the Maurice Ravel high school in Paris has resigned from his post after threatening to be beheaded for ‘security reasons’. She had asked three students to remove their headscarves at school in the name of the secular law that governs the country. There are two young people arrested. A “national mobile school force” will be deployed to ensure the physical security of schools and high schools.
“The Games are a goal”
“The Olympic Games are a goal” indicated Jean-Charles Brisard, president of the Terrorism Analysis Center (CAT).
The Interior Minister wanted to reassure the population on Monday during a trip to Roubaix. “The French police, the gendarmes, the prefects, the secret services are ready” for the Olympic Games, indicated Gérald Darmanin.
Paris has organized several Olympics: in 1900 and 1924 and will host them now, in 2024.
Paris will be the second city, within the Modern Games, to have hosted the Olympic Games three times. The other was Londonwho organized them in 1908, 1948, 2012.
Source: Clarin
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