2024 Olympic Games: Airspace around Paris closed on the evening of the opening ceremony

2024 Olympic Games: Airspace around Paris closed on the evening of the opening ceremony

Gerald Darmanin announced the closure of airspace, on the evening of the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in a radius of 150 kilometers around the capital.

If you want to travel during a period The Olympic Games in Paristhis summer, Forget July 26, 2024. On this day of opening ceremonyIt will be difficult to get around by car or by metro or also airplane, especially in the evening! On March 5, 2024, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced Airspace closurein Its radius is 150 km across the capital during the ceremony. Suffice it to say that no planes departing from the region's airports will fly in the area that evening.

It is absolutely historic to completely close airportsHe added while Helicopters and drones It is scheduled to fly over the capital and the ceremony, in order to be able to hold Fixed snipers. What “Track potentially complex teams or locations where security teams have doubts” And Security guarantee From the event.

The ceremony is scheduled to begin at 7:30 pm, and all air traffic is scheduled to stop from 7 pm until midnight, at all airports in the region, namely Roissy-Charles de Gaulle, Orly, Le Bourget and Beauvais airports. The latter will therefore be closed, and flights cannot be maintained, even for heads of state who have to go to the capital, and who will have to “Reach beyond this area or source“.

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