Tony Estanguet does not confirm the theft of a computer and USB keys containing plans to secure the Olympics

Caution. Tony Estanguet, the president of the organizing committee for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, did not confirm the theft of a computer and USB keys containing the security plans for the competition. The information was revealed on Tuesday February 27 by BFMTV. “I have not had confirmation from the city of Paris, so I prefer to wait until this information is confirmed before expressing myself”he assured Wednesday on the set of the show “Télématin” on France 2. Asked by AFP, the Paris town hall had not commented on Tuesday evening.

🔴🗣️ INFO: Tony Estanguet DOES NOT CONFIRM that a computer and USB keys containing the security plans for the Paris Olympics competition were stolen from Gare du Nord. #Les4V #JO2024 @TonyEstanguet pic.twitter.com/sCwGo81Huw

— Telematin (@telematin) February 28, 2024

Five months before the Olympic Games which are being held from July 26 to August 11, this affair, if confirmed by the organizers, would be a new thorn for the Paris 2024 organizing committee after the searches carried out in the premises of the COrganizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (COJOP) and the revelations concerning Tony Estanguet’s salary.

To strengthen security around this event, the city of Paris plans to mobilize a workforce of 2,000 agents from the municipal police department. “If there is one subject that we have been working on since the creation of the Organizing Committee, it is security, wanted to reassure Tony Estanguet on France 2, (…) the authorities are very mobilized, we are progressing rather very well (…) There is also expertise in the city of Paris which welcomes each year for the celebrations of July 14, for December 31, hundreds of thousands of people , we don’t start from nothing.”