The Olympic flame will arrive in Marseille on May 8 under maximum security measures. The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced on Monday that no less than 6,600 police and gendarmes will be mobilized to ensure the path of the flame through the country. Obviously, it will start in Marseille on May 8. , according to the Bouches-du-Rhône police prefecture.
The Olympic flame will arrive on the outskirts of Marseille aboard the Belem, the three-masted ship that will arrive in port at around 12:45. He will be accompanied by “an armada of very varied vessels,” the prefecture says, first making an excursion around the entire port and then returning to the old port at 6:00 p. m. exactly. It’s around 7 p. m. that the sailboat will moor before the Olympic flame descends from the ship. A very hard symbolic moment: the first of the Olympic cauldron will take position at 7:30 p. m. exactly in the Old Port.
According to the police prefecture, about 150,000 more people are expected to attend the first concert “with famous artists. “
Obviously, the popular occasion will take place under maximum security, with a “totally unprecedented” device. The police prefecture announced “a security bubble” around the Belem for its movements at sea. Once on land, the flame will be framed by a fully cordoned-off Old Port with a “SILT” (Internal Security and Counter-Terrorism) perimeter. All accesses will be regulated with systematic controls for those who wish to attend the occasion. Demining operations will be carried out, either on land and sea, on the pontoons and throughout the “U” of the Old Port.
Logically, a large number of police and gendarmes will be mobilized, with uniformed workers in civilian clothes. The prefecture of police announced up to 5,000 police gendarmes for the arrival of the flame. Among them: RAID and GIGN workers, gendarmerie helicopters, but also a gigantic formula of anti-aircraft cover “to protect against any aerial threat”. They will be assisted by drones to monitor the area.
Le 9 mai, le premier relais de la flamme en France effectuera un parcours de 20 km à Marseille, dans tous les secteurs de la ville, notamment les plus symboliques : Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde et le Vélodrome en font partie.
The protection formula consists first of all “of protecting the flame itself and allowing it to travel those 20 kilometers,” the prefecture specifies. A security check will be set up through local security forces with the help of cellular forces. All cars will be eliminated along the entire route.
Un dispositif anti-intrusion sera également mis en place pour empêcher tout véhicule d’accéder au parcours de la flamme. Après huit étapes dans Marseille, la flamme arrivera dans le centre-ville pour la cérémonie d’allumage du chaudron. À ce moment-là, de nombreuses animations populaires seront aussi sous haute sécurité, avec les mêmes moyens déployés : un périmètre SILT, le criblage des intervenants, un dispositif de déminage et des moyens spécialisés du RAID ainsi qu’un dispositif anti-drone.
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