Macron confident of great Olympics opening ceremony on river Seine but has plan B
STARING up at the huge Olympics logo on Paris’s city hall, Mathilde Hoesch reveals her firm plans for when the Games begin.“At first I thought the Olympics were a great idea, but in the past few months everything’s gone badly.”
The French leader has staked much on a lavish opening ceremony, which is planned to take place on the River Seine that snakes through Paris.The idea is for 10,500 athletes on 116 barges to meander through the City of Light for almost four miles as the sun sets. And President Macron says France has a “plan B and a plan C” if forced to cancel the river parade for security reasons.Residents and motorists will need a QR code to enter an area along the Seine and around Olympic venues before and during the Games.Olympic security fears as TOP SECRET police plans for Paris Games including for terror target Stade de France are stolen
A migrant camp of ramshackle tents has built up on its banks opposite Ile Saint-Louis and directly outside Paris’s city hall. The city is banking on a new treatment plant at Austerlitz Bridge to clean up the water and says thatIf tests prove the water is still contaminated come July, the swimming events can be postponed until later in the Games when conditions might have improved.“Actually, I had a friend who once did and he got a bad infection.”The Socialist Party politician, 64, insisted she will prove it in June by taking to the water herself.
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