"Trojan horse" of widespread video surveillance for environmentalist and communist senators, "essential" measures to secure the Paris 2024 Olympics for others, the Olympic bill very focused on security was widely adopted Tuesday by the Senate .
The text was voted by 245 votes for and 28 votes against.
Examined in an accelerated procedure (only one reading per chamber) it will be sent to the Assembly.
Debated last week, its flagship article allows the experimentation of cameras equipped with algorithms to detect suspicious crowd movements or avoid “bottlenecks in transport”.
This device will "contribute to the security of the Games" and will be used to "evaluate in real time the merits of this technology", welcomed Senator LR Agnès Canayer, whose group voted for.
“Many guarantees”
These cameras of a new type can be deployed as soon as the law comes into force and could therefore be tested for the Rugby World Cup in eight months, before helping to secure the Paris Olympics and in particular its ceremony. unprecedented opening on the Seine on July 26, 2024.
In the rear view mirror, the fiasco of the Champions League final at the end of May 2022 with spectators blocked at the exit of the RER, others without tickets climbing the gates of the Stade de France, families sprayed with tear gas or being attacked .
It is “an essential milestone in our preparation for the Olympics”, was satisfied after the vote the Minister of Sports and the Olympics, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra.
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"In fact of showcase, we will have a France under glass", on the contrary complained the ecologist Guy Benarroche, whose group voted against.
Same wind of anger among the Communists who see in this project a security drift.
“We are not sweeping away fundamental rights in this way, you are tarnishing the popularity of the Olympics”, accused Eliane Assassi.
As for the socialist group, it abstained because the government "did not remove the doubts", explained Jérôme Durain.
Faced with these criticisms, the government assured that the experimentation with so-called “augmented” cameras was surrounded by “very many guarantees”.
He repeated that he ruled out facial recognition.
The project had been retouched after the opinion of the Council of State and that of the National Commission for IT and Freedoms (Cnil).
The latter had also considered as a “turning point” the use of artificial intelligence in surveillance cameras.
Cameras to make up for the lack of security guards?
The association La Quadrature du net does not take off, pointing out the fact that once the Olympic Games are over, these measures will be made permanent.
Other security-related measures include the possibility of using body scanners, which so far have only been used at French airports.
These may be able to somewhat compensate for the shortage of private security agents that is looming.
Indeed, both the State and the organizers of the Olympic Games fear not having the 20,000 or so agents necessary at least, because this fragmented and poorly paid profession has been undermined by the Covid crisis.
Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, did not rule out an intervention by the army to lend a hand during the Olympics, while minimizing this possibility.
“If, at the end of the end of the end of the end, a certain number of people are missing, we will see what we can do.
But we believe that a large country like France is capable of responding to this private security issue, ”he assured the senators.
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