Are we heading towards a controversy concerning the distribution of the 222,000 invitations to the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games on July 26? While they were shared between the stakeholders of the Games, Mathieu Hanotin, the mayor of Saint-Denis, believes that his city and the department of Seine-Saint-Denis were not well served. He is demanding 22,000 places, or 10% of the quota and the possibility for the 93 to distribute these invitations as he wishes.
Currently, the sharing carried out by the Interministerial Delegation to the Olympic and Paralympic Games has been done according to the weight of each entity in the Games system: 35,000 for the city of Paris, 35,000 for the State and 35,000 for the committee organization of the Games. The Seine-Saint-Denis department has 10,000, as many as the Ile-de-France region and the Greater Paris Metropolis. The host cities and intermunicipalities share the rest: 1,000 for those located in Île-de-France, 500 for those in the provinces (Lille, Châteauroux, Marseille).
