Seine Saint-Denis does not want to undergo the 2024 Olympic Games economy plan

Roxana Maracineanu during the launch of the Olympic Village construction site in Seine Saint-Denis, in November 2019. -

• A few days ago, the Team made public the possible changes of locations for certain events in Paris 2024.

• Seine-St-Denis, which were to be at the center of these Games, could be the big loser.

• 20 Minutes went to the media counter-offensive of the elected officials of 93.

A blow of pressure as we like them.

A few days after spitting out their coffee while reading

, the elected officials of Seine Saint-Denis organized their media counter-offensive on Thursday just next to the Stade de France to weigh in the debate, while the organizing committee of the Olympic Games 2024 (Cojo) must meet in the coming days to decide on the quick.

Caught up by the Covid crisis and the anticipated fall in sponsorship revenues, Paris 2014 is seeking to cut spending.

10% less budget, or 400 million to find by searching in every corner.

The 93 does not want to lose swimming

The first leaks leave little room for doubt.

The 93 should drink more than the others, while it is by selling the accelerated transformation of this popular territory thanks to the Games that Paris has partly obtained the pompom before Los Angeles.

Stéphane Troussel, the president of the Departmental Council, shouts before the tragedy: “We have been playing this unpleasant little music for several months, saving money in Seine Saint-Denis.

We understand the context well, but our department should not be an alibi at the time of the application to become the adjustment variable of the project afterwards.

There are red lines that must not be crossed ”.

One fear dominates all the others.

That of seeing the swimming events, the traditional highlight of the first week, moving to the Hauts de Seine (at the Arena de Nanterre), to do without the removable pool estimated at around 200 million in the specifications.

“It is no small matter to lose swimming, deplores Mathieu Hanotin, the mayor of Saint-Denis. What could be better than having the most prestigious events here to attract investors?

We are told about escalation in exchange, but even if I don't want to offend anyone, the attractiveness is not the same between the two events.

It is not the first movement of revoyure that there was.

So no, we are not happy ”.

"Fortunately, they cannot move the Stade de France"

The elected socialist refers to the concessions already made in 2018 with the loss, among other things, of badminton, and the downward revision of ambitions for the media "cluster" at Le Bourget (then transformed into housing for residents), which There is also a risk of losing volleyball, expected to land ... in Lille, by visibly very flexible gymnastics.

Indeed, lines 16 and 17 of the metro which must connect Paris to Bourget will not be completed on time.

A prospect that annoys Stéphane Troussel prodigiously, who calls on Jean Castex, the former interministerial delegate to the Olympic and Paralympic Games to avoid the bleeding:

“The government has just announced a recovery plan of 100 billion euros, it seems to me that there are possibilities here to support the transformation of Seine Saint-Denis.

I know what empty promises are.

I remind you that the problem of the Olympic swimming pool should be resolved long ago.

We had promised that it would be built in Aubervilliers whether or not Paris obtains the 2012 Olympics. We are still waiting ”.

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the Cojo maintains that the 93 will remain "the territory which hosts the symbol of the universalism of the Games, the Olympic village, and the leading sport, athletics, for 985 million euros on the 1, 3 billion invested by the State via the Solideo (delivery company of Olympic works) ”.

A point that attracts a scathing joke from Mathieu Hanotin: "For the joke, I often say 'fortunately they can not move the Stade de France" ".

Implied?

Otherwise athletics would be the trunk too, like the opening ceremony, which it is rumored that it could "break the codes" and not take place in the stadium of the 98 world champions. That would start to do a lot.

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