Amid applause, he proudly carries what looks like the Olympic flame and is followed by around ten runners at a pace of 4 km/h.
Suddenly, two men from the audience run towards him to attack him.
In a few seconds, the troublemakers are overpowered and put on the ground before being removed from the procession.
Less than a minute passed between their intervention and their extraction.
This is the exercise carried out by police officers and gendarmes this Monday at the regional Gendarmerie training center in Beynes (Yvelines), under the watchful eye of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
“We have been on the subject for over a year.
Our objective is to have identified the risk matrices, from the flat tire to the drunk person, the demonstration or even the terrorist risk, explains Commissioner Charles Barion, responsible for the torch relay system.
The idea is to have an adapted, graduated intervention.
We want to stay with something festive and popular.
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