Notre-Dame: everything you need to know about the disruptions of the

A SILT protection perimeter will be set up on December 7 and 8, 2024 with an exceptional mobilization of national police, national and military gendarmerie agents, but also municipal police agents. This security plan put in place by the Police Prefecture is inspired by that of the opening ceremony of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, both for the management of the ceremonies and for the arrangements for welcoming the public.

The City of Paris, for its part, is re-establishing its Paris Operation Center (POC), a command room providing a view of all of Paris and ensuring public tranquility.

Traffic restrictions will be in place during the ceremonies, allowing Parisians and visitors to enjoy the event. The SILT perimeter will be lifted during the octave week (eight-day celebration), but high-level security will be maintained during services.

• Closure of the high quays on the left bank, cycle paths included, between the Pont de la Tournelle (5^e) and the Pont-Neuf (6^e)

• Quai de la Tournelle, Montebello, Saint-Michel (5^e) closed to traffic in their entirety, including cycle paths;

• It is impossible to cross, even on foot or by bike, the Île de la Cité from the left bank to the right bank, and vice versa.

Road traffic is maintained on the right bank, with occasional cuts for the passage of the processions of heads of state, from the Concorde, from the Alexandre III bridge to the Pont-Neuf from Saturday December 7 at 5 p.m. and the Sunday December 8 between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. It is advisable to avoid the Parisian city center during the process.

Access to the entire perimeter will be exclusively on foot.

Persons authorized to travel (after visual inspection of baggage, search and pat-down):

• People living or working in the area with proof of address, a work certificate or a professional card). Residents living within the SILT perimeter are advised to anticipate and postpone deliveries. For those who would like to leave the Île de la Cité by vehicle: do so before 2 p.m. on Saturday, December 7 or after 10 p.m. on Sunday, December 8.

• Persons holding an invitation to attend the ceremonies

• People accredited by the organization

• Visitors to the Sainte-Chapelle and the Conciergerie until Saturday, December 7 at 3 p.m. et from 3 p.m. on Sunday, December 8by reservation only and via a specifically designed pedestrian traffic corridor on Boulevard du Palais from the Pont au Change and Place Saint-Michel.

• Pedestrians will be asked not to park on the right bank quays when processions pass

• Shops and restaurants located on the left bank between the Pont de la Tournelle and the Pont-Neuf will be able to remain open until Saturday, December 7 at 3 p.m.. Their access will however be possible without reservation until 1 p.m. that day, time of last entries, without opening of terraces possible.

• Closure of second-hand booksellers whose boxes are located within the protection perimeter: the boxes will be subject to demining and will be closed from December 4 at 8 p.m. until Monday, December 9 at 12 p.m.

• Saint-Michel and Cité closed on Saturday December 7 until Sunday December 8 at 8 p.m.

• Pont-Neuf metro station closed on December 7 from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. and Sunday, December 8 from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

• RER C interrupted on Saturday December 7 between 12 p.m. and 10 p.m.

• The metros on the right bank will operate normally (except Pont-Neuf)

Buses usually crossing the Île de la Cité will necessarily be diverted but the lines will be operated (lines 21, 27, 38, 47, 58, 63, 67, 70, 75, 86, 87, 89, 96 and N12, N13, N14, N15, N21, N22). Diversion routes will be in place starting December 4.

Interrupted from 3 p.m. for the south arm of the river and from 5 p.m. for the north arm until midnight on Saturday. It will be interrupted from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday, December 8.

To cross from the left bank to the right bank and vice versa, it is recommended to use the metro for travel.

Only guests (3,000 people) will access the site. But around the Île de la Cité, on the high quays, an area has been set up so that spectators can also experience the event, in particular thanks to a retransmission on five giant screens installed both on the Île de la Cité, visible from the high quays on the left bank, and on these very quays.

40,000 people will be able to access five boxes (subject to availability). Each spectator will be distributed a bracelet.

Public reception Saturday December 7 from 3 p.m. and Sunday December 8 at 8 a.m.