The ephemeral Grand Palais puts up resistance. GL Events, the owner of this structure, highlights its usefulness in maintaining it on the Champ-de-Mars after the Olympic Games.
An offensive which irritates local residents, elected officials and the Minister of Culture. “It would be an ecological and financial waste to dismantle it”, after the Games. Rachida Dati, Mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris, does not see it that way.