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Special anti-terrorism measures being put successful spot to safeguard nan unprecedented opening ceremonial for nan Paris Olympics connected nan River Seine will besides use to each buildings on nan route, meaning group who activity and unrecorded location and their guests will beryllium subjected to inheritance information checks, Paris constabulary main Laurent Nunez said Thursday.
Those affected will beryllium cross-checked against information services' databases, to spot whether they person antecedently been flagged arsenic suspected Islamist extremists aliases for different radicalism, Nunez said.
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A gendarmes patrol successful beforehand of nan Charles de Gaulle airport, terminal 1, wherever nan Olympic rings were installed, successful Roissy-en-France, northbound of Paris, Tuesday, April 23, 2024 successful Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
The wildly eager July 26 ceremonial is proving to beryllium a gargantuan information challenge. Athletes will beryllium paraded done nan bosom of nan French superior connected 94 boats on a 6-kilometer (nearly 4-mile) agelong of nan Seine, from eastbound to west. They'll beryllium accompanied by 87 different boats for security, media and different people.
All of nan parade way will beryllium wrong a high-security area that Nunez described arsenic an "anti-terrorism perimeter." He said it will see nan first statement of buildings on nan route.
"We wanted to see successful nan perimeter each of nan buildings that person a position connected nan parade," Nunez said.
The area will beryllium put successful spot from July 18 and beryllium extended moreover further on some banks of nan stream connected July 26, successful nan last hours earlier nan evening ceremony.
Anyone who wants to participate nan area successful nan 8 days earlier nan ceremonial and connected July 26 itself will request to pre-register online and will "systematically" beryllium subjected to nan inheritance information checks known successful France arsenic an "administrative investigation," Nunez said.
Those affected will see group who activity and unrecorded wrong nan perimeter, arsenic good arsenic their guests, and group going to hotels aliases restaurants wrong nan zone, he said.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said astir 20,000 group unrecorded and activity wrong nan perimeter. In nan days earlier nan ceremony, location will beryllium places to transverse nan stream and ways to sojourn nan Louvre and different museums on nan stream without having to participate nan information zone.
Nunez said nan information cheque for those affected won't see searching done their communications. "It’s not arsenic intrusive arsenic that," he said.
"We verify if nan personification is known successful a definite number of intelligence files," he said.
Anyone flagged by nan checks could beryllium barred from nan zone. "It will evidently beryllium lawsuit by case," Nunez said.
Ticket-holders for nan ceremonial won't request to pre-register connected nan online level that will unfastened May 10. But Nunez said French intelligence services tin do checks connected them, too.
Separately, nan apical administrative charismatic for nan Paris region, Prefect Marc Guillaume, pledged that tests connected nan h2o value successful nan Seine will beryllium made public, without specifying erstwhile aliases really regularly.
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Marathon swimmers and Olympic and Paralympic triathletes are scheduled to title successful nan river, which is being cleaned up for nan Games. From July 1, samples will beryllium collected from 36 spots connected nan stream and its tributary, nan Marne, Guillaume said.
"We will beryllium wholly transparent astir our results," he said.
