The President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron has decided to renounce the movement of second-hand booksellers from the quays of the Seine during the 2024 Olympic Games, the Élysée announced this Tuesday, February 13, according to AFP.
Last summer, book sellers were informed that for security reasons, several hundred boxes of books installed along the quays would have to be temporarily moved a few days before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on July 26 on the Seine. .
Since then, they have been fighting to keep these boxes in place, sealed during the preparations.
Already neglected by Parisians and weakened by Covid-19, they believe that many of them will not survive if they have to wait until, in the middle of the tourist season, their wagon green wooden boxes are removed, restored and reinstalled.
Some 16 million tourists are expected in the capital during the Games.