The French Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa Castéra, assured this Wednesday that There is no “definite” terrorist threat against the Paris Olympicsa dozen days after the terrorist alert was raised to its highest level.
“We are following the terrorist threat with all necessary vigilance. Today there is no specific terrorist threat against the Olympic and Paralympic Games,” declared Oudéa Castéra in an interview with public television channel France 2.
Shortly after, Executive spokeswoman Prisca Thevenot explained that last weekend “an attempt to continue the action” was aborted thanks to the anti-terrorist security device in 4,530 religious buildings in the country, where 13,500 agents were deployed.
Thevenot did not give details about the nature of this attempt, or about the place and precise moment in which it happened, but he made an effort to point out that since the beginning of the first term of the president, Emmanuel Macron , in May In 2017, 45 terrorist attacks were prevented in France.
The Government has decided to raise the terrorist alert level to the maximum, called “attack urgency”on March 24, two days after the attack on a shopping center outside Moscow.
Until now, when that level was set in France it was maintained for a few days or a few weeks, but this time there was speculation about the possibility that it would continue until after the Olympic Games (from August 26 to August 11 ) and even the Paralympics (from August 28 to September 8).
Asked about an alternative to the opening ceremony, which for the first time was scheduled not inside a stadium, but in the center of Paris, with delegations sailing on boats along the River Seine, the minister insisted that it will continue to be “central plan.”
However, he quietly admits that they are also working on some other hypothesis that he does not want to enter outside of “judgment: “It is not because there is no conversation about a plan B that is unexpected.”
Oudéa Castéra admitted that a rehearsal for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, which was initially scheduled for April 8, was postponed, but he did not play it.
He pointed out that it was decided three weeks ago and the reason for the delay was that the water level was very high that day due to the recent increase in rains.
Instead, there will be a rehearsal on May 27 and above all, a dress rehearsal on June 17. “We will be ready for the event,” said the French Sports official.
Source: La Verdad
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