Paris 2024 Olympic Games: Games costing nearly 9 billion euros, “without budgetary excesses or hidden costs”, assures Minister Oudéa-Castéra

La ministre des Sports Amélie Oudéa Castera, mardi lors de l’inauguration de la Marina olympique à Marseille. MAXPPP – SPEICH Frederic

Mais le coût de la sécurité n’est pas encore connu et pourrait faire gonfler la facture.

The Minister of Sports and Olympics, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, assured deputies on Tuesday evening that there was "no hidden cost or budgetary drift" regarding the bill for the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games.

"There are no hidden costs or budgetary drift", she said while several questions from MPs related to the Olympic budget. "These Olympics are the least expensive since Sydney (in 2000)" , she assured.

Currently, the total bill for the Games is 8.8 billion euros, 4.4 billion euros for the organizing committee (made up of ticket revenue, the IOC contribution and sponsorship revenue) and 4.4 billion euros for infrastructure (including 1.7 billion euros public).

Between 3 and 5 billion in public money?

Last week, the first president of the Court of Auditors, Pierre Moscovici, indicated that the Paris Olympic Games "should cost" between three and five billion euros of public money, specifying that the bill would only be known after the event (July 26-11). ;nbsp;August).

Indeed, certain public costs are not yet known, such as that of security provided by the State. The minister assured that a "end of evaluation work" was underway, ministry by ministry, with regard to state expenditure, during this question session dedicated to the Olympics at the request of the LR group.

Ensuring cyber security

Questioned about the delicate situation of the French group Atos, partner of the IOC and Cojo, in full collapse, and which must provide cybersecurity services in particular, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra indicated that the situation was being viewed with "vigilance", in concert with the French Computer Security Agency (Anssi).

Questioned about security and external reinforcement in police and military personnel, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra specified that in addition to the dog brigades, given the lack of sniffer dogs, there were also requests of "motorcyclists", "equestrian brigades", "document fraud experts", or "anti-drone fighter specialists& quot; in particular.

35 States providing reinforcement on dog technical risks

"At the end of March, 35 States responded favorably for reinforcements, particularly on dog technical risks", a-t- she says. In total, "around forty foreign military dog ​​teams will reinforce the system."