French Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra assured Wednesday that there was to date
“no terrorist threat”
specifically targeting the 2024 Paris Olympics, and that the opening ceremony on the Seine remained the
“plan central”
on which the organizers are working.
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“We are monitoring the terrorist threat with all the necessary vigilance. “There is no specific terrorist threat today against the JOP
,” she said during a morning interview on France 2.
The French government decided, immediately after the attack on March 22 against the concert hall near Moscow, where 144 people died, to raise the Vigipirate security plan to its maximum level,
"emergency attack"
, four months from Games.
It's not because we don't talk about it, about a plan B, that we don't plan for it.
Amélie Oudéa-Castéra
Asked once again about the existence or not of a plan B for the opening ceremony on July 26, the minister replied:
“This ceremony on the Seine remains our central plan (...). I think there is discretion that must be respected. It’s not because we don’t talk about it, about a plan B, that we don’t plan for it.”
Asked about the postponement of technical tests planned for April 8 on the Seine for the opening ceremony, the minister spoke of a
“non-event”
.
“It’s a decision that was taken 3 or 4 weeks ago already, there were different dates that were possible, April 8, May 27. We canceled the date of April 8. The rehearsal will take place on May 27, and there will be a dress rehearsal, in fact, on June 17
,” she explained.
“We take into account the fact that there is a level of height of the Seine, of flood and also of currents which would have complicated the carrying out of this test
,” she added.