Europe 1 with AFP // credits: Thomas COEX / AFP 4:50 p.m., February 11, 2024

During the inauguration of the Arena Porte de la Chapelle, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, urged Parisians to stay in the capital during the Olympic Games. “Paris is going to be magnificent, don’t leave Paris, that would be bullshit!”, she said this Sunday. 

During the Olympic Games, "Paris is going to be magnificent, don't leave Paris, that would be bullshit!", launched the PS mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo on Sunday, inaugurating the Arena Porte de la Chapelle which will host Olympic events this summer . "We're going to vibrate together. Paris is going to be magnificent! Don't leave this summer, don't leave, that would be bullshit, it's going to be incredible!", she said from the floor of this new room, owned by the Paris town hall, and which has 8,000 places in basket configuration. “It’s a bit like the beginning of the magic of the Olympics,” she enthused.

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She also presents on Sunday, the Minister of Sports and the Olympics, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, for her part praised "the impetus that the Olympics can give to transformations", in reference to the Chapelle district, one of the most deprived in Paris . During the Olympics, badminton and rhythmic gymnastics events will take place there. Between July 26 and August 11, the Olympic Games will notably generate numerous traffic restrictions in the city, where doubts and questions remain about the organization of the event and the constraints it will create, less than six months. before the start of the tests.

“Four years we’ve been dreaming about it, four years we’ve been working on it”

Just before the arrival of the mayor of Paris for a tour of the building, a demonstration of undocumented immigrants "No papers, no Olympic Games" took place in a significant way in front of this new facility called "Adidas Arena " under a naming contract. “Four years of dreaming about it, four years of working on it,” rejoiced Nicolas Dupeux, general director of the Arena, also operator of the Accor Arena in Bercy and the Bataclan. Sunday evening, the floor of this room will be inaugurated by its resident club, Paris Basket, which will meet Saint-Quentin.