During the Olympic Games,
“Paris is going to be magnificent, don’t leave Paris, that would be bullshit!”
, launched the PS mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo on Sunday by inaugurating the Arena Porte de la Chapelle which will host Olympic events this summer.
“We’re going to vibe together. Paris is going to be beautiful! Don’t leave this summer, don’t leave, that would be bullshit, it’s going to be incredible!”
, she said from the floor of this new room, owned by the Paris town hall, and which has 8,000 seats in basketball configuration.
“It’s a bit like the beginning of the magic of the Olympics
,” she enthused.
Traffic restrictions
She also present on Sunday, the Minister of Sports and the Olympic Games, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, for her part praised
"the impetus that the Olympic Games can give to transformations"
, in allusion to the Porte de la Chapelle district, one of the most disinherited in Paris.
During the Olympics, badminton and rhythmic gymnastics events will take place there.
Between July 26 and August 11, the Olympic Games will notably generate numerous traffic restrictions in the city, where doubts and questions remain about the organization of the event and the constraints it will create, less than six months before the start of the tests.
Just before the arrival of the mayor of Paris for a tour of the building, a demonstration of undocumented immigrants
"No papers, no Olympics"
took place briefly in front of this new facility called
"Adidas Arena"
under of a naming contract.
“Four years we've been dreaming about it, four years we've been working on it
,” rejoiced Nicolas Dupeux, general director of the Arena, also operator of the Accor Arena in Bercy and the Bataclan.
Sunday evening, the floor of this room will be inaugurated by its resident club, Paris Basketball which will meet Saint-Quentin.