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       ARTICLE VIEW: 
       
       Emmanuel Macron says Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony could be changed in
       case of terrorism threat
       
       By Dalal Mawad, CNN
       
       Updated: 
       
       5:17 AM EDT, Tue April 16, 2024
       
       Source: CNN
       
       French President has said authorities will have an alternative plan in
       case of a terrorism threat at the Paris 2024 Summer Opening .
       
       “If we think there are security risks, we’ll have plan B, and even
       plan C,” Macron said in an interview with CNN affiliate BFMTV from
       The Grand Palais in Paris, one of the Olympic sites, during a visit
       Monday to mark 100 days before the opening of the games.
       
       Macron mentioned the option of “restricting the ceremony to the Paris
       Trocadero square facing the Eiffel Tower” or moving it to the Stade
       de France stadium.
       
       The president added that authorities will put a security perimeter
       around the ceremony site days, if not weeks, before the start.
       
       Earlier in March, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced
       that the attendance capacity at the ceremony – the first to be held
       along a river – will be .
       
       Some 104,000 people in stands will line Paris’ Seine river, with a
       further 220,000 on raised roadways along the six kilometer (nearly four
       miles) stretch of the river that will host the ceremony, according to
       the French interior ministry.
       
       French officials had boasted for years that some 600,000 people would
       be able to attend the Opening Ceremony.
       
       Last week, Paris police for the Champions League quarterfinal between
       Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona.
       
       The heightened security presence followed a threat from the Islamic
       State terror group against the Parc des Princes and other European
       soccer stadiums hosting Champions League matches.
       
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