Mission to Paris: Nikos Papadogiannis
The primary actual safety crash-test, of a political nature and never … of soccer like the sunshine deviations of yesterday’s Argentina-Morocco match in Saint-Etienne, went easily in Paris and with out the tragedies that the French authorities feared.
In Israel’s match with Mali (1-1) for the soccer match, within the half-full Parc des Princes, he didn’t open a nostril. “We had been afraid, however the whole lot went effectively,” mentioned the rich Gérald Darmanen, the Macron authorities’s inside minister.
When the Israeli nationwide anthem was performed, loud applause was heard from the stands. However that was all. 13 youths within the stands wrote the slogan “Free Palestine” letter by letter on their chests, a number of others appeared on the sphere with inflatable watermelons (a logo of Palestine, as a result of the watermelon has red-green colours like its flag) and no cat or injury. The few Israelis who went to insurgent gave option to rage and sat spherical to look at the match.
“Preserve your eyes open, as a result of our state is underneath risk and we worry a bloodbath just like the one in 1972 in Munich, by terrorists incited by Iran,” writes the Israeli international minister, Israel Katz, to his French counterpart. Exaggerations, maybe, however such issues are to not be trifled with. Particularly when threats of “blood of infidels” are being spewed by means of the web. In France, allow us to not neglect, a whole bunch of hundreds of Muslims stay. And never all of them are peaceable.
The upkeep of order was taken over within the “Park of the Princes” by about 1000 law enforcement officials of the particular anti-terrorist group “Sentinel”, which was created particularly to extinguish the fears of a brand new bloody November 2015. Right this moment’s staff printed photographs not of the pro-Palestinian protest, however from the Israeli stand. The 88 athletes of the Israeli mission are guarded day and evening.
Paris, in the meantime, is paying homage to lockdown Paris. As if the hysterical safety measures and the police blocks that preserve the “unemployed” away from the historic middle weren’t sufficient, the native rulers hastened to drop the final masks, doubling the price of Public Transport.
The message is evident and non-negotiable: “Sit at house. The Video games belong to international guests.” Just like the Greek islands in August! As for the remainder, the Municipality of Paris organized a press convention yesterday, to re-present the “Every part in Fifteen Minutes” program.
We’re speaking about strolling, not driving. Inside 1 / 4, day and evening, the Parisian will attain any service he wants or needs: physician’s workplace, hospital, pharmacy, mini market, steakhouse, spa. Nevertheless, it is going to be tough to get to his home within the middle except he has the mandatory QR Code.
The haughty determine of Giannis Antetokounmpo will seem first on the Seine in tomorrow’s “Parade of Nations”, whereas the Nationwide Basketball staff will come to Paris from Lille. “For a lot of youngsters, attending an Olympic Video games Opening Ceremony was a childhood dream,” Vassilis Spanoulis defined. How way more, for Antetokounmpo who grew up poor and hungry on the margins of Greek society. The thrill of the 29-year-old celebrity will flood the river.
Tomorrow’s Opening Ceremony is anticipated to be attended by 200,000 spectators alongside the 6 kilometers of the riverside route from the Austerlitz bridge to the Trocadero, in addition to greater than 100 heads or …deputy heads of state. Amongst them will likely be Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who on Saturday evening is anticipated to journey to Lille to look at the match of the “official favourite” in opposition to Canada.
By the best way, yesterday Maria Sakkari celebrated her birthday within the Olympic Village. The legendary intervention of the federal government “court docket” was not sufficient to provide the 28-year-old tennis participant the anointing of the flag bearer. Subsequent to Giannis Antetokounmpo, the two-time European strolling champion Antigoni Drisbiotis will stand tomorrow evening.
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