Paris 2024 Olympic Games: the Corporal Alain Mimoun military camp, “the largest since the Second World War!”, hosts 4,500 soldiers

The military camp was built on the site of the Trône fair, in the 12th arrondissement of Paris. C.B.

The air-conditioned collective accommodations are metal and wooden buildings. C.B.

The camp was named after World War II hero and Olympic champion Alain Mimoun. C.B.

Chaque hébergement collectif peut accueillir entre 12 et 18 soldats. C.B.

In the camp, sports equipment is made available to soldiers. C.B.

The restaurant's vast dining room can accommodate more than 2,000 guests. C.B.

Au restaurant du camp militaire, divers menus sont proposés aux militaires chaque jour. C.B.

Le camp militaire "Caporal Alain Mimoun", construit dans le XIIe arrondissement de Paris, héberge 4 500 soldats, à proximité des sites sécurisés des JO 2024.

Not far from the sites secured by the army for the Paris Olympics, a vast military camp was built to house some 4,500 soldiers, present since the beginning of July and for the duration of the sporting event.

Located on the lawn of Reuilly, in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, where the Trône fair takes place every year in the spring, this camp, called "Caporal Alain Mimoun", of name of a hero of the Second World War and Olympic champion, is " the largest built in France since the Second World War !&quot ; says Landry Jourdain, representative of the Économat des Armées, the public partner establishment of the armies responsible for the project. "The problem in Paris is that there is no longer a military base with operational soldiers. For the Olympic Games, we had to find accommodation solutions. he explains.

330 collective housing units

The camp, built "in a record time of 65 days", brings together 330 collective housing units , air-conditioned metal and wooden buildings, each capable of accommodating between 12 and 18 soldiers, or more than 30,000 m2 of living space. Not to mention the 5,000 m2 space dedicated to catering, with its 2,100 m2 dining room, where "800 people pass in twenty minutes".

Infrastructures which will be dismantled at the end of the Olympics.

Alain Mimoun, a military hero during the Second World War and an Olympic champion over 10,000 meters

The camp where the soldiers operating for the Paris 2024 Olympics are installed bears the name of a military hero and a high-level athlete, Alain Mimoun, who received the honors during his funeral in 2013 in the courtyard of Les Invalides.

Born in French Algeria in 1921, he participated in the landing of Provence, the liberation of Marseille and the Jura. The corporal then embarked on a sporting career and became Olympic champion in 1949 in the 10,000 meter race. He subsequently obtained numerous national and Olympic titles, and also the gold medal at the Melbourne marathon in 1956.

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