Paris 2024 Olympic Games: Senators largely adopt safety bill

The text must in particular authorize the experimentation of so -called “increased” cameras and body scanners.

MO12345LEMONDE with AFP

The Senate adopted, Tuesday, January 31, by a large majority the Olympic bill for the Olympic Games (OJ) in Paris 2024, very security focused and disputed by the Communists and the Ecologists.

This text, voted by 245 votes for and 28 against, will in particular authorize the experimentation of so -called “increased” cameras allowing thanks to algorithms to detect crowd movements. It is examined in the accelerated procedure, a single reading in the Senate and the Assembly.

This law arrives a few months after the fiasco of the Champions League final, at the end of May 2022, at the Stade de France. Spectators without tickets climbing the grids, holders of tickets blocked at the entrance, sprayed families of tear gas by the police or thefts and attacks: the final had turned to the nightmare.

detect suspicious movements

To secure the Paris Olympics, likely to attract 13 million spectators, and some 600,000 people for the opening ceremony along the Seine quays on July 26, 2024, the help of cameras to detect Suspicious movements in the crowds is claimed by the authorities.

Both near the speakers and in adjacent transport, they will also be able to detect “abandoned objects”, or allow “statistical analyzes, attendance flows for example”, according to the impact study of the law .

Another security measure: body scanners, which could partially supplant the lack of private security agents, in particular women, which everyone anticipates.

The experimentation of these new tools may start from the entry into force of the law, but also for “recreational” and “cultural” events. The text was retouched by the government after the opinion of the National Commission for Data Protection and that of the Council of State.

/Media reports cited above.