Près de 15 000 athlètes, 878 épreuves, 40 000 bénévoles mobilisés, 13 millions de billets mis en vente, 100 chefs d’État et 25 000 journalistes. Des compétitions qui se dérouleront à Paris et en Île-de-France, mais aussi à Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Nice et Saint-Étienne, Marseille, Tahiti… Le tout avec un afflux inédit de populations venues du monde entier. La sécurisation de ces Jeux olympiques est forcément un défi majeur pour le ministère de l’Intérieur, d’autant plus que la menace terroriste – organisée ou non – demeure importante.
Police prefect Laurent Nuñez, whose competence has been extended to the whole of Île-de-France for the Olympic Games, presented to the press on Wednesday the security measures that will be implemented in Paris, the city most involved during the event. was founded in particulars angeles on October 30, 2017 on internal security and counter-terrorism (SILT), which had then been incorporated into the ordinary provisions of Los Angeles in the past reserved for the state of emergency. established in the capital, with a vital detail: from March 2024 until next October, the reunion and dismantling operations that will lead to plos angeles in the ephemeral sites, such as those of the Trocadero, the Champs de Mars or the Plos. angelesce de los angeles Concorde, possibly “would lead to a prompt enforcement of the perimeters. “
The day after these announcements, which caused a great stir, in particular the return of the use of the QR code (see previous page), the prefect convened a hearing before the Senate. He tried to reassure about this exceptional regime, saying it had been misunderstood, said he was open to debate and referred to “the usual practices of the police services”.
Security officials are concerned about a date, that of the opening ceremony, which will take place on July 26, for the first time outdoors in a stadium. In Àpars, the occasion will take the form of a nautical parade by each delegation. , in a direction of 6 kilometers. Two years ago, Prefect Lallement was a long-time opponent of the mayor of Paris, considering that he was highly unlikely to secure the venue beyond 250,000 spectators. But Emmanuel Macron was in favour of this nautical parade, despite the then disputed forecasts of 2 million spectators!In the end, it would be worth about 600,000.
An Olympic Intelligence Centre has even been set up
Once again, these will be ultra-controlled perimeters that will be put in place before the ceremony and replaced on D-Day. “For apparent security reasons, it is not necessary to indicate the exact time when the perimeters will be drawn. ” explained the prefect of police. We only know that the banks of the Seine will be closed to traffic for 10 kilometers, that the west of Paris will be blocked up to the Champs-Elysees and that pedestrians will have to be “registered” and “show their credentials,” Núñez confided to Le Parisien.
Risk can come from anywhere, from the air. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) has announced that the airports of Roissy and Orly will remain closed on July 26. In addition to the implementation of a strict air transit zone, with a radius of 150 kilometers around Paris, with no altitude limit, between 7:00 p. m. and 9:00 p. m. and midnight.
In addition to the attacks, the government also fears raids by radical environmental activists. An open note from the DGSI recalls that “a global current event provides a very strong sounding board for activists seeking impact and notoriety. France, already attacked by terrorist movements and foreign interference operations, will have to take into account all kinds of threats that could undermine the organization of the Games, disrupt their development, whether in the Olympic venues or elsewhere, or destabilize the organization of our security. (attack, cyberattacks, or fitness crisis). “
Due to the intensity of these multifaceted threats, the Ministry of Interior has created the Olympic Intelligence Centre (CRO), which provides a summary of the data accumulated through intelligence three times a day, both in the box and in the Internet. Et, in order to be prepared against any security risks, does not reject any tool on principle.
In October 2021, the inter-ministerial delegate for the Olympic Games, Michel Cadot, said: “The position of the government and that of the delegation I lead is that we want to use facial popularity to ensure the safety of the Games. The law of 19 May 2023, relating to the 2024 Olympic Games, authorises on an experimental basis the algorithmic processing of photographs collected by video coverage systems or by cameras installed on drones. And this until December 31, 2024 for cultural and sporting events. long after the completion of the Olympic Games. . .
These provisions have inevitably provoked the fear of elected officials or the associations involved about the use of personal data. That is why a parliamentary draft was drawn up in April 2023 to answer this question. At the time, he stated that the evaluation of this experiment was “one of the key elements in the light of which the legislator will decide whether or not to make this formula permanent. “Presented as “temporary”, this measure is unlikely to remain so. The debate between security needs and the exercise of civil liberties is no longer taking place: it has been settled.