Questioned by the centrist senator Laurent Lafon on the fact of knowing "
when the scenario of the use of the army will be officially announced
" to supplant a shortage of private security agents, a hypothesis which has been circulating widely behind the scenes for several weeks, Mr. Darmanin explained that we would have to wait until “
February or March
” to find out more: “
If at the end of the ends of the ends of the ends, a certain number of people are missing, we will see what we can do.
But we believe that a large country like France is capable of responding to this private security issue
, ”he said.
"
At the beginning of next month we will know more
" because the organizing committee of the Olympic Games (Cojo) will begin "
to strip
" the calls for tenders launched with companies.
Of the 22,000 agents needed to secure the competition sites, responsibility of the Cojo, "
we have 11,000 to 12,000 who meet the criteria, we have made good progress
".
"
There is also the price that the Cojo will put
," he said.
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The Cojo studies a call for tenders
Asked about this subject during a press conference on Wednesday at the organizing committee of the Olympic Games, the general manager of the Cojo Étienne Thobois specified that they were in the process of "
dissecting the answers
" of the first call for tenders. (which concerns 37% of the lots) and to “
share them with the public authorities
”.
He said that “
some large companies did not respond
”.
A second wave has been launched, and a third will follow.
Faced with a shortage scenario, the Court of Auditors recently recalled that it is up to the Cojo to pay the State if the army were to be mobilized.
Asked whether this hypothesis was provided for in the budget, Étienne Thobois replied “
yes
”.
Where to house the security guards?
The distribution of public and private security police forces was the subject of the signing of a security protocol between the State and the Cojo, a document which is currently being updated.
An appendix is provided for the specific question of the opening ceremony on the Seine.
In addition, "
we will have to accommodate in Paris and its inner suburbs 35 to 40,000 police and gendarmes and a few thousand private security agents who are not Parisians
", he also added.
The question “
where do we house them
” is a “
first very important problem on which we are working
”.