Paralympics, the first record is already in the numbers
As was the case for the 26 July Games ceremony along the Seine, not having the confined spaces of a stadium makes it more difficult to guarantee security
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Armoured and spectacular. Paris awaits the opening ceremony of the Paralympics on Wednesday 28 August with large numbers. There will be 75,000 people attending the parade: 30,000 with paying tickets in Place de la Concorde, 15,000 free of charge at the bottom of the Champs Elysées and another 30,000 also free of charge in the Louvre gardens, not far from the Olympic cauldron.
Impressive numbers and, as was the case for the ceremony of the Games on 26 July along the Seine, not having the circumscribed spaces of a stadium makes it more difficult to guarantee security, so much so that the Ministry of the Interior has run for cover with 25,000 police and gendarmes to which 10,000 private security agents must be added, with a special eye on 'sensitive' delegations, for example, that of Israel with its 27 athletes, two referees and the president of the Israeli Paralympic Committee.
The ceremony includes the parade of 168 delegations (a record for the Paralympic Games) of athletes and the show, which creative director Thomas Jolly has centred around the theme of inclusion. Appointment at 8 p.m. on Wednesday 28 August.
