The french government denied this Monday that the budget of Paris Olympics in 2024 was out of control and ensured that a significant police deployment would guarantee security, after the bad experience at the Champions League finals in May.
Two years after the start of this global event, the French president, Emmanuel Macronsummoned to Elysium the main ministers involved in the organization, as well as the person in charge of International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bachto examine the main challenges of Games.
“The lack of control over the budget is baseless”assured sources from the Elysee at the end of the meeting, where the impact of the increase in inflation on the nearly 4,000 million euros budgeted for the works of the Games was studied.
According to these sources, the additional costs due to price increases currently amount to 140 million euros, 100 of which will be paid by the French State and the remaining 40 by public entities.
The between 1,700 and 1,800 million euros that the Games will spend on French public coffers will be “maintained”, the sources said.
The strengthening of security is another of the points that caused the most concern, especially after a report from the French Court of Auditors that warned of the need to strengthen this chapter after the failure of the Champions League finals on May 28 between of Liverpool. and Real Madrid, disputed in Saint-Denis State of France.
The Elysee specified that between 7,000 and 11,000 police will be deployed each day -except for the opening of the Games- and there will also be around 17,000 private security agents daily.
Source: La Verdad
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