“Our central plan remains the Seine” for the opening ceremony, reaffirms Amélie Oudéa-Castéra

Regarding the security of the Olympic Games, the President of the Republic spoke on Monday of “plans B or even C” in the event of a threat to the opening ceremony.

100 days before the opening of the Olympic Games in Paris, “there is no threat specifically aimed at the Games, no anticipated terrorist threat on our soil”, says Amélie Oudéa-Castéra on franceinfo, Wednesday April 17. For the opening ceremony, on July 26, “our central plan remains the Seine”she assures. “Now we must be lucid, without naivety”, “we are in a complex world”Who “asks us to anticipate, to be foresighted, to be responsible”she admits.

Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that there were “plan B”, “even C plans” for the Olympic opening ceremony. In the event of a terrorist threat, the opening ceremony would be “limited to Trocadéro”, or even at the Stade de France, he first explained. One of his advisors finally clarified that it was a hypothesis “uneducated” For now. But Amélie Oudéa-Castéra maintains that there is “a gradation in the threat”. “If on D-3, there were to be an absolute catastrophe, we must imagine that there would be a ceremony more of a protocol nature”she adds, specifying that, in this case, “different locations are possible and the Stade de France can be one of them”.

The secure Olympic flame route

Concerning the journey of the Olympic flame through France, “there really is a system for securing this relay which is very advanced”, says Amélie Oudéa-Castéra. The minister mentions “a security bubble around the flame bearer(s)” with “18 police officers or gendarmes who will be in civilian clothes to surround the bearer of the flame” as well as’“a convoy of approximately 115 internal security forces, then units of mobile forces at the front, at the rear”. “There will even be GIGN teams who will be positioned if necessary”, she specifies. Of the “alternative routes” were also prepared.