Anne Hidalgo understood it well. Many Parisians, discouraged by traffic restrictions announced this summer and scalded by current transportation difficulties, intend to leave during the Olympics. Especially if they can rent their apartment at full price during this time. “Paris is going to be magnificent, don’t abandon Paris, that would be stupid!” said the PS mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, on Sunday when inaugurating the Porte de la Chapelle Arena, which will host the Olympic events this summer.
“Let’s vibrate together. Paris is going to be beautiful! “Don’t leave this summer, don’t leave, that would be stupid, it’s going to be incredible!” he said from the floor of this new hall, owned by the Paris city hall, and which has 8,000 seats in configuration. basketball. “It’s a bit like the beginning of the magic of the Olympic Games,” she enthused.
Also present on Sunday, the Minister of Sports and Olympic Games, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, praised for her part “the boost that the Olympic Games can give to transformations”, in reference to the Porte de la Chapelle neighborhood, one of the most disinherited in Paris. During the Olympic Games, badminton and rhythmic gymnastics events will be held there.
Between July 26 and August 11, the Olympic Games will generate numerous traffic restrictions in the city, where doubts and questions persist about the organization of the event and the limitations it will create, less than six months before the start of the tests.
Just before the mayor of Paris arrived to visit the building, a “No papers, no Olympics” demonstration by undocumented immigrants briefly took place in front of this new facility called “Adidas Arena” under a naming contract.
“Four years we dreamed about it, four years we worked on it,” says Nicolas Dupeux, general director of the Arena, also operator of the Accor Arena in Bercy and the Bataclan. On Sunday afternoon, the floor of this hall will be inaugurated by its resident club, Paris Basketball, who will face Saint-Quentin.
2024-02-11 19:42:32
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