The 50,000 members of the police - police, gendarmes, soldiers, firefighters, etc. - coming from the provinces and mobilized during the Olympic and Paralympic Games will have a free card to travel on public transport in the Ile-de-France region.
This was announced this Wednesday morning, during the standing committee of the Île-de-France regional council, its president (LR) Valérie Pécresse, who is also at the head of Île-de-France Mobilités , the regional authority in charge of transport.
If there already exists an agreement which allows free travel all year round by metro, RER, etc. for the Île-de-France law enforcement agencies, there is no such system planned. for those from other regions.
“They will benefit from a Pass for the duration of the Olympics”, we decipher in those around Valérie Pécresse.
“The numbers called for reinforcement revised upwards”
The elected official had already mentioned this free service but for a quota of “45,000” agents.
“The numbers called for reinforcements have been increased,” specifies this same source, according to data “from the Ministry of the Interior and the Interministerial Delegation to the Olympic and Paralympic Games.”
During this same intervention, Valérie Pécresse recalled that the Region would provide these law enforcement agencies located far from their homes with 5,000 boarding places in regional high schools in order to accommodate them.
She also welcomed the decision of Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin “to lower the gauge for the opening ceremony to 300,000 people.
» “It was a request that had been made by Île-de-France Mobilités for months”, welcomed Valérie Pécresse, considering this figure “much more reasonable” for “the safety” of spectators” and “the flows passengers on public transport.
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