The French president asks not to fall into alarm because of the risk of attacks around Notre Dame during the Games Paris Olympics next summer, when the temple will unveil its new spire and be almost ready to welcome the public.
Two days before French President Emmanuel Macron visited Notre Dame, just one year from its reopening date (December 8, 2024), Elysée sources recalled this Wednesday that “there will be many security reinforcements” during the Olympic Games.
Approximate up to 30,000 agents daily will be deployed in the capital.
In recent days, French authorities have acknowledged some concerns about a possible resurgence of jihadist attacks in Paris., after what was done on Saturday on the bridge over the Seine in Bir-Hakeim, a short distance from the Eiffel Tower. There, a 26-year-old Frenchman killed a 23-year-old German-Filipino tourist with a knife and injured two other people.
When the Olympic Games begin in July 2024, five months before Notre Dame reopens – it has been inaccessible since a violent fire in April 2019 -, Both the roof and the spire are visible.
Who was in Paris then”They will see the cathedral as they know it and the rest as they imagined“said Elysée.
The statues of the twelve apostles, built in the 19th century and saved from the fire because they were casually dismantled a few days before the fire for restoration, will be replaced “in the spring.”
Due to reopen on December 8, 2024, the French president relativized the Court of Auditors’ warning about the risk of an avalanche of visitors, considering that until 2019 an average of 12 million tourists will arrive in the Cathedral.
“It was built 8 centuries ago to withstand many people. “This is more of an organizational issue than a structural one,” sources said.
The collection of private donations, in France and abroad, to rebuild the monument is almost 850 million euros. The Elysée said that, in the event that all that money is not used for reconstruction works – it will be known as soon as they are completed – it will be informed in due course to what purpose it will be given.
Source: La Verdad
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