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Paris 2024: the disability world is concerned about the accessibility of the Olympic Games

2023-04-14T16:13:12.073Z


SURVEY - 500 days from the disabled sports meeting, many infrastructures are not sufficiently adapted.


The organization of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, an indicator of the lack of accessibility in France?

Metro, stations, routes, tickets, accommodation… With D - 500 before the start of the Paralympic Games, on August 28, 2024, France must prepare to welcome 350,000 people with disabilities.

A huge issue.

“France was late on the subject,

recognizes Geneviève Darrieussecq, Minister Delegate in charge of Disabled People.

The JOP act as a boost for the accessibility of our country.

All work has been slowed down during the Covid period.

It had to become a priority again.”

The law of February 11, 2005, however, provided that

"all establishments open to the public should be accessible in 2015",

recalls with bitterness Pascale Ribes, president of APF France Handicap.

In January, she played the provocation card in a column published by the

Sunday Journal: “Paris 2024 Olympics: towards a disaster scenario for…

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Source: lefigaro

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