Under pressure ? “When you are Minister of the Interior, you play your role every day,” replies Gérald Darmanin. One month before the arrival of the Olympic flame on French soil on May 8 in Marseille, the Minister of the Interior may put things into perspective, but it is on his shoulders that one of the major challenges of these next Olympic Games rests and Paralympic Games: that of security.
This is because the event promises to be XXL. 326,000 people to be welcomed, just on the banks of the Seine, on the day of the opening ceremony... while France has just raised the Vigipirate plan to its maximum level. Exclusively for Le Parisien-Aujourd'hui in France, Gérald Darmanin details his roadmap. From the control systems put in place in the access perimeters, to the means deployed to receive foreign delegations and their heads of state.
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