The Olympic Games in Paris, the last big event that Gérald Darmanin will have to organize as Minister of the Interior? A tenant of Place Beauvau since 2020, the “first police officer in France”, he explained on the set of C for you on Wednesday night that he intended to remain in office at least until the summer of 2024.
“I hope to have a kind of moral contract with the President of the Republic, so I understood my mission, which was to go to the Olympic Games,” he said.
And after the summer of 2024? “I am at the disposal of the President of the Republic and of the Republic”, replied Gérald Darmanin.
“If I go until 2024, it will be four years”
The former mayor of Tourcoing recalls that he has been Minister of the Interior for two and a half years. “Quite a long time,” said Gérald Darmanin, most of his predecessors occupying Place Beauvau for a year or less. “If I go to 2024, it will be four years.”
The organization of large events “occupies a third of my time for a year”, Gérald Darmanin also specifies. Because the Olympic Games will take place just a few months after the Rugby World Cup in the fall of 2023 across the country and the Pope’s visit to Marseille. The commemoration of the landing on the Normandy beaches in June and the landing in Provence in August also actively occupied the services of the Ministry of the Interior.
45,000 police officers and gendarmes will be mobilized for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the Interior Minister also recalled. “It has no equivalent,” he assured.
“I hope to be successful and to be able to organize five hyper-intensity events that will consume a lot of energy from the police and gendarmes and prevent attacks and crowd movements like in Seoul,” concluded Gérald Darmanin.
Source: BFM TV
