As the Paralympic Games end this weekend, it is already time to take stock for the security forces and in particular for the soldiers of Operation Sentinelle, who were heavily involved throughout the competition of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Eight thousand soldiers are still present in the capital, but these soldiers will be rapidly disengaged next week.
Securing the Olympic Games, then the Paralympic Games, and in between, securing the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Paris, it was an extraordinary summer for the soldiers of Operation Sentinelle.
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Up to 11,000 soldiers mobilized in the capital, a troop that in total will have traveled 3.5 million kilometers on foot. A real military operation that will have required crazy logistics and very close cooperation with the Parisian police, insists Christophe Abad, military governor of Paris.
« Summer 2024 was ultimately the ability to grasp all these milestones as a whole, to plan the means, which was complex. The complexity focuses on the work of anticipation and planning ” explains Christophe Abad.
- RFI
