The Olympic bill, presented Thursday to the Council of Ministers, includes security measures, such as the use of body scanners, or the possibility of opening on Sundays during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, according to the text whose AFP had a copy.

Faced with the security challenge represented by the event, in particular the unprecedented open-air opening ceremony on the Seine, the text makes it possible to use an artificial intelligence system to detect suspicious crowd movements in or at around stadiums, on public roads and in transport.

No facial recognition

Called for a long time by the interministerial delegate to the Olympic Games, Michel Cadot, again at the end of May after the serious incidents of the Champions League final at the Stade de France, it will be an "experiment" for "recreational events, sporting or cultural events” exposed to “risks of terrorism” or “serious threats to personal safety”.

These experiments will be authorized by decree after consulting the CNIL and may begin as soon as the law comes into force until June 30, 2025. “They do not use any biometric data, do not implement any facial recognition technique and do not may carry out any reconciliation, interconnection or automated linking with other processing of personal data”, assures the explanatory memorandum of this text of 19 articles.

The executive has been saying for months that he does not want to use facial recognition in the context of the Olympics.



Another novelty: body scanners, until now used only in airports, will be authorized at the entrance to the enclosures of more than 300 people, with the consent of the person.

This avoids a security search, while the organizers of the Olympic Games and the State are faced with a shortage of private security agents.

The text also provides for screening measures, that is to say administrative investigation, for the members of the delegations who will reside in the Olympic village, but also the volunteers and service providers, including those who will intervene in the fan zones.

It gives authority to the prefect of police of Paris, Laurent Nunez, in all the departments of Ile-de-France from July 1 to September 15, 2024.

Passage of the text to Parliament in January?

It also reinforces the sanctions in the event of violence in the stadiums, in particular in the event of recidivism or violence in meetings.

Similarly, judicial stadium bans become mandatory in the case of certain offences.

It provides that in the municipalities where competition sites are located, or bordering, the prefect may authorize the opening of shops for goods or services on Sundays from June 1, 2024 to September 30, 2024.

The date of passage in Parliament of this text is not yet planned but several political sources have mentioned the month of January to AFP.

It is also a period during which Parliament will have to debate a report from the Court of Auditors on the Olympics, as prescribed by the previous Olympic law passed in 2018.

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