Paris takes safety steps over Olympic drone risk

France will deploy 35,000 safety and army personnel to guard the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games opening ceremony from threats together with drone assaults.

Crowds of greater than 600,000 persons are anticipated to line the route.

“Drones characterize a very new risk,” stated French inside minister Gerald Darmanin.

“We’ve executed quite a lot of work on the basic risk, whether or not it’s delinquents, whether or not it’s a individual armed with a weapon, a bomb… We all know easy methods to detect and fight this risk.

“The arrival of drones loaded with explosives within the theatre of civilian operations is new. There is no such thing as a certainty this risk will materialise, however it’s the hardest to cease.”

The Paris 2024 opening ceremony would be the first held outdoors of a stadium at a summer time Video games.

Organisers are planning to put in the Olympic flame on the Eiffel Tower, though not on the highest of the monument.

The 2024 Olympics happen from 26 July to 11 August.