Paris 2024 Paralympic Games: Gérald Darmanin announces up to 25,000 police and gendarmes mobilized to ensure security

Almost half as much as for the Olympic Games. Up to 25,000 police and gendarmes moved, 10,000 private security agents, no real threat: the outgoing Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin gave details on Tuesday of the security system that has been put in place involved for the Paris Paralympic Games.

During these Games, “the maximum was 25,000 law enforcement officers in Ile-de-France and Châteauroux”, where the shooting events will take place, the minister said at a press conference. “We will have the support of the three intervention forces” (BRI, Raid, GIGN), with 300 personnel, and “10,000 private security agents”, said the minister. Regarding the threats that could affect him the Paralympic Games, which were organized from August 28 to September 8, “we have no particular risk and we are extremely vigilant,” said Mr. Darmanin.

The security of sensitive delegations, including Israel, “will be ensured in the same way as the Olympic Games”, he said, with 27 athletes, 2 referees and the president of the Paralympic committee who will be “permanently protected “. The torch relay, which will begin in France on August 25, will include 12 marches and will pass through 33 regions, “each time under the authority of the senior officials of the region”, continued the minister.

Tony Estanguet, president of the Paris Games organizing committee, welcomed the decision to “maintain the level of movement to ensure security from the Paralympic Games torch relay”.

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The opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games will take place on August 28 at the Place de la Concorde, still under the direction of artistic director Thomas Jolly. The Swede Alexander Ekman was chosen to do the entire dance, surrounded especially by 150 dancers, including about twenty with disabilities. Around 15,000 members of the police will be involved in the opening ceremony, with “a total of 35,000 spectators in the stands at the Place de la Concorde – including almost 5,000 athletes and 170 organisations- Olympic representation – and 15,000 seats open to the public at the foot of the Champs-Elysées”, according to Gérald Darmanin.

The minister mentioned internal security and anti-terror (SILT) limits around the Place de la Concorde and the Tuileries Gardens, the details of which will be announced later by Paris police chief Laurent Nuñez. These Paralympic Games take place in the context of the beginning of the school year and the resumption of political life in France, which awaits the establishment of a new government.

If public transport in Paris, especially the metro – old and not very accessible – is still a black spot to welcome people with disabilities, Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra assured that “more than 65 stations accessible Regarding tickets, Ms. Oudéa-Castéra specified that 300,000 tickets would be distributed for free, including “200,000” reserved “for schools”. Although the goal of the Games was for France to reach the “top 5”, the outgoing minister placed it at the “top 8”. These are, she said, “the first summer Paralympic Games in our history”. For these games, “4 million spectators, including 10% foreigners” are expected.