Paris 2024 Olympic Games: “It’s not because we don’t talk about it, about a plan B, that we don’t plan for it”, indicates Oudéa-Castéra in the event of a terrorist threat

La sécurité est au cœur des préoccupations lors de la cérémonie d’ouverture. MAXPPP – Le Parisien/Arnaud Journois

La ministre des Sports dit qu’actuellement il n’y a "pas de menace terroriste" visant spécifiquement les Jeux de Paris.

French Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra assured Wednesday that to date there was "no terrorist threat" specifically aimed at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, and that the opening ceremony on the Seine remained the "central plan" on which the organizers work on.

"We are following 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 Vigipirate plan at its maximum level

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 before the Games.

Questioned 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 that there is a work of discretion that must be respected. It's not because we don't talk about it, about a plan B, that we don't plan it."< /p>

Dress rehearsal for the opening ceremony on June 17

Questioned about the postponement of technical tests planned for April 8 on the Seine for the opening ceremony, the minister mentioned a "no -event". "It’is a decision that was taken 3 or 4 weeks ago already, there were different dates which 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, there is a level of height of the Seine, of flood and also of currents which would have complicated the realization of this test-there", she added.