It is one more bone in the organization of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, particularly in the field of security. The prefect Ziad Khoury, appointed national coordinator for the security of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, was suspended on March 21, 2023 by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, who had appointed him to this key but thorny post in the organization of this planetary event constituting a formidable showcase for France, as revealed by Le Canard Enchaîné.
According to our information, the former prefect of Aisne has been suspended pending the conclusions of an administrative investigation into his supposedly inappropriate behavior towards female staff. It was a trip to the United Kingdom in November 2021 to prepare for the security of the Olympic Games, which would be the cause of the setbacks of this enarque described by some of his detractors as execrable with his collaborators, and sometimes heavy with female staff.
Inappropriate remarks
In view of the preparation for securing the 2024 Olympics, Prefect Khoury would have been particularly insistent with a British policewoman, making inappropriate remarks. The authorities would then have complained to their French counterparts. In the entourage of Ziad Khoury, there is talk of an attempt to destabilize the organization of the Paris 2024 Olympics.
“During this trip, there were a dozen people who accompanied him, he is accused of having awkward remarks but he is calm, he has nothing to reproach himself for,” reports a close friend of this senior official. Asked, Ziad Khoury did not comment, evoking his obligation of reserve.
These detractors also reproach him for trips to the four corners of the world to fish for ideas in terms of maintaining order and wonder about a trip to New York for the transition to the new year or to Arizona for the Superbowl, the grand final of the american football championship.
Already at the helm at Euro 2016
Enarque, the National Security Coordinator for the Olympic and Paralympic Games is also a graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies and the National Institute for Advanced Security and Justice Studies. The senior official, who began his career in the prefectural, had already taken care of securing Euro 2016. Contacted, the Ministry of the Interior, did not wish to comment.
