2024-04-19 11:49:49
On Monday, April 15, Emmanuel Macron was frozen by announcing on the air of BFMTV and the RMC that France prepared “plans B and plans C” with a view to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris 2024. Faced with the risk of a terrorist attack, the President of the Republic indicated that the festivities could be held within a perimeter “limited to Trocadéro”, or even at the Stade de France.
However, Laurent Nuñez, prefect of Paris, muted these comments. Guest at the microphone to France InterFriday 19 April, he declared that so ” threat [était] permanently in our country for many years”there was no more risk than usual. “There is no known, identified, distinct threat to the Games”he even assured.
Algorithmic video surveillance tested at two events this weekend
Extensive security is planned for the Olympic Games (26 July to 11 August) and the Paralympic Games (28 August to 8 September). This one is accurate “adapted to a very high level of terrorist threat” because of’“emergency attack”highest level of the Vigipirate plan, adopted in March after the attack in Moscow.
Among the measures that are planned, it is particularly that of algorithmic video surveillance, criticized because of possible facial crimes. “There is no facial recognition, the law prohibits it. It is simply the use of video protection to detect abnormal things, such as a crowd movement in the opposite direction to the normal direction of traffic, intrusion of individuals into prohibited areas., reassured the prefect of Paris. This technology will be used on Saturday 20 April for the Black Eyed Peas concert at La Défense Arena, and on Sunday 21 April for the match between PSG and Olympique at the Parc des Princes.
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