ER Editor: The Paris Olympics this summer has become Clown World. The city’s mayor Anne Hidalgo is one of those globalist-socialists we’ve learned to recognize and despise. Few seem enamoured here by the prospect of the Games, including us. Here’s a little news update on this auspicious (cough) event, with exclusion of Russian and Belarusian athletes being the top agenda item. The IOC isn’t looking any better either. See Hidalgo’s comment about Israel …
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Migrants and homeless moved out of Paris ahead of Olympics
At least 500 migrants and rough-sleepers have been moved from the capital to rural areas and small towns in France as Paris gears up to host the 2024 Summer Olympics in July and August. The move is seen by humanitarian activists and some local authorities as an attempt to hide the homeless ahead of the event.
Some regional mayors have expressed concerns over the new arrivals to their regions. Serge Grouard, the mayor of Orleans in central France, with a population of around 100,000, confirmed to reporters on Monday that there were rumors the move was aimed at “cleaning the deck” in the capital before the Olympics.
France wants foreign troops to reinforce Olympics security – media
With the event just three months away, the attack in Russia (ER: Crocus Theatre in Moscow) has prompted Paris to tighten anti-terrorism measures
France has called on its international allies to help enhance security for the upcoming Olympic Games, in Paris, AFP reported on Thursday, citing sources in the government.
According to the report, Paris has asked 46 nations to send 2,185 police reinforcements for the duration of the games in order to take over tasks that require additional specialists.
French spies want Olympics opening ceremony scrapped – media
French intelligence services have recommended scrapping plans for a grand opening ceremony for the 2024 Paris Olympics because of security concerns, the Europe1 news outlet has reported, citing sources.
Under the current plan, the ceremony in the French capital on July 26 is set to be a lavish event on the River Seine, involving a boat parade of athletes and tens of thousands of spectators watching the proceedings along the banks.
However, France’s General Directorate of External Security (DGSE) is reportedly worried that the scope of the event is too big, and that it presents too many safety risks in the face of potential terrorist plots.
And the controversial swimming pool (is it yet ready?), to be hosted in the nearby, working class suburb of St. Denis, will replace a free public pool serving the local community with some expensive, privately-owned facility which locals probably won’t be able to afford to use once the Games are over (browsers will translate) —
In Saint-Denis, the JO turn a free pool into a private water centre
A little humour —
Translation: Anne Hidalgo has the 2024 Olympics at heart, she ordered Amazon.fr an Olympic swimming pool with our taxes, we can see the athletes training hard there, I will send another photo of the progress of the work promised!
Anne Hidalgo a les JO 2024 à cœur, elle a commandé sur https://t.co/oDxbOQn4pi une piscine olympique avec nos impôts, on peut y voir les athlètes s’entraîner durement, j’enverrais d’autre photo de l’avancement des travaux promis!👏👏👏🤣 https://t.co/cO0RBEIsw2 pic.twitter.com/bApOALmGHj
— Devolver (@Devolver01) March 31, 2024
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#JO Paris (tweets will translate automatically)
Russian 🇷🇺 and Belarussian 🇧🇾 athletes are NOT WELCOME to the Olympics at Paris.
Israeli 🇮🇱 athletes however are VERY WELCOME and if you disagree you are Hitler.
The Olympics of hypocrisy and genocide. https://t.co/DxHWwM4A7Z
— Politique Potentielle (@Razauv) April 1, 2024
Some typical reaction —
Translation: We will see this during the next attack planned in France. The Olympics will be canceled (not ready anyway, see Olympic swimming pool). They will bring out the military programming law to have the right of pre-emption over any person and property. We arrive in maximum turbulence
On verra cela lors du prochain attentat prévu en France.
Les JO seront annulés (de toute façon pas prêts, cf piscine olympique).
Ils sortiront la loi de programmation militaire pour avoir droit de préemption sur toute personne et bien.
Nous arrivons dans la turbulence maximale— PLL (@Tousfous) March 24, 2024
Translation: It’s been 10 years since #Paris became a nightmare for Parisians with @Anne_Hidalgo, who have been leaving the capital for 6 years with their family, why would the Olympics of #Paris2024 go better when the city announces bad news all the time? the weeks for 1 year?…
Ca fait 10 ans que #Paris est devenu un cauchemar pour les parisiens avec @Anne_Hidalgo, qui quittent la capitale depuis 6 ans avec leur famille, pourquoi les JO de #Paris2024 se passeraient mieux alors que la ville annonce des mauvaises nouvelles toutes les semaines depuis 1 an… pic.twitter.com/tnlImwepGs
— Antonin Duarte 🌿 (@antonin_duarte) March 28, 2024
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And here is Russia’s reply to Paris mayor, Anne Hidalgo (main article below) —
Moscow condemns Paris mayor’s hostile stance on Olympic athletes
Moscow could potentially boycott certain French goods, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman warned on Sunday, after Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said Russian and Belarusian athletes were “not welcome” at the upcoming Olympics.
”Do you think maybe we should pick up some French products that are now widely represented in Russia and announce that ‘they will not be welcome’?” Maria Zakharova wrote on Sunday on her Telegram channel.
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Russian athletes ‘not welcome’ at Olympics – Paris mayor
The competitors are allowed to participate as neutrals in individual sports, but are barred from team events
RT
The mayor of Paris has reiterated her proposal that Russian and Belarusian contestants stay away from this summer’s Olympic Games in the French capital, despite them being officially allowed to compete as neutrals.
“I want to tell the Russian and Belarusian athletes that they are not welcome in Paris,” Anne Hidalgo told Ukrainian athletes at a training center in Kiev on Thursday, while on a visit to Ukraine.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) initially pushed for a complete ban on competitors from Russia and Belarus after the outbreak of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022. However, last December the IOC ruled that a limited number of people from the two countries could participate as AINs (individual neutral athletes).
🚨 Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo: “Russian and Belarusian athletes are NOT welcome at the Paris Olympic Games!” #Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/5L27ZyBTJ2
— Blood Games 2024 (@BloodGames2024) March 30, 2024
Hidalgo told Reuters earlier this month that she would prefer for Russian and Belarusian contestants not to come at all. “We cannot act as if [the Russian military operation in Ukraine] did not exist,” she told Reuters.
When asked about Israel’s Olympic participation – in the context of the Gaza war, raging since the Hamas attack on October 7 – Hidalgo insisted there was no comparison to be made.
Sanctioning Israeli athletes is “out of the question because Israel is a democracy,” she stated. (ER: C’mon, don’t laugh.)
Russia has slammed the IOC’s difference in approach to Israeli and Russian contestants. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused the Switzerland-based body of “political activism” and called its approach self-discrediting.
The maximum numbers of Russian and Belarusian athletes that can qualify for the upcoming games are 55 and 28, respectively. The IOC has noted that the teams are unlikely to actually meet the quota, with some 36 Russian and 22 Belarusian athletes expected to make it to the games, according to IOC director James Macleod.
Participants from the two nations can only compete in individual events, and not team sports, under a neutral flag, and are barred from the Olympic opening ceremony.
Commenting on the restrictions faced by Russian and Belarusian competitors, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the move “destroys Olympic ideals and discriminates against the interests of Olympians.” Such restrictions run “absolutely contrary to the entire ideology of the Olympic movement,” he insisted.
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