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1 of 3 | In 2017, Olympic rings were unveiled connected nan Trocadero Square other nan Eiffel Tower (pictured) to observe Paris officially being awarded nan 2024 Olympic Games. The tract is 1 of nan alternatives being considered for nan event's opening ceremonies this summer. File Photo by David Silpa/UPI | License Photo
April 15 (UPI) -- The French authorities said Monday that nan July 26 Olympics opening ceremonies will person replacement plans if needed amid increasing information concerns.
In an question and reply connected Monday, President Emmanuel Macron stated his assurance that nan ceremonies will not only proceed arsenic planned but beryllium successful. He added that a Plan B and Plan C are connected nan array should thing spell awry.
"This opening ceremonial ... is simply a world first. We tin do it and we are going to do it," Macron said Monday greeting to French news media sites RMC Radio and BFM-TV.
Other alternatives see holding nan opening ceremonial successful Trocadero Square, which faces nan Eiffel Tower and wherever nan Seine River way will culminate.
And nan different would beryllium to spell conscionable northbound of Paris to nan Stade de France, wherever way and section events will play out.
"We are preparing them successful parallel," said Macron astir nan imaginable back-up plans, adding that "we will analyse this successful existent time."
In early March, nan French authorities laid retired plans to standard backmost nan Paris Summer Olympics opening ceremonies amid increasing information concerns
The nautical Olympics opening parade done Paris will see 160 boats -- 1 for each state participating -- which will transportation 206 delegations and 10,500 athletes.
It will beryllium nan first clip an Olympics opening ceremonial will return spot successful a nationalist space, alternatively of wrong an enclosed stadium.
The original 600,000 spectators expected on nan 3.7-mile agelong from eastbound of Paris to nan Trocadéro will beryllium capped astatine 325,000 connected July 26 nan time of opening ceremonies and will tally until Aug. 11.
Slashing nan crowd size came astatine Macron's request, according to a apical charismatic pinch French intelligence services who said location are concerns astir information and "the main threat is Islamist terrorism."
During nan aforesaid question and reply Monday, Macron added nan he would do "everything possible" to unafraid information amid concerns successful Ukraine and Gaza. He said he besides said pinch China's President Xi Jinping
"We want to activity towards an Olympic truce and I deliberation it is an juncture for maine to prosecute pinch a batch of our partners," Macron said.
He told reporters earlier successful nan period that he believed Russia would effort to target nan Olympic games successful immoderate way. There are 46 countries aiding 18,000 French subject unit successful nan important information effort.
From Aug. 28 to Sept. 8 will beryllium nan Paralympic Games.
