Calling on the Alliance and Unsa-Police unions, many cops are demonstrating this Thursday, January 18, 2024, to demand compensation for his or her mobilization throughout the Olympic Video games.
The 2024 Summer season Olympic Video games will likely be celebrated from July 26 to August 11, 2024 in Paris and a number of other cities in France. This planetary sporting occasion will entice 10,500 Olympic athletes and 4,350 Paralympic athletes collaborating in 878 occasions in 54 sports activities. 72 host communities, over 40,000 volunteers mobilized, almost 13 million tickets on sale. The Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Video games are a large-scale sporting occasion. The opening ceremony can be a safety problem. For the primary time, it would happen exterior a stadium. 600,000 spectators will be capable of watch the parade, which is able to happen over six kilometers alongside the Seine. To ensure security, all cops in France are mobilized throughout this era.
No Video games with out cops
In concrete phrases, which means that for 3 weeks, from July 26 to August 11, and likewise from August 28 to September 8, the period of the Paralympic Video games, cops will likely be disadvantaged of household holidays, and must discover childcare throughout the faculty holidays.
They did, in fact, meet with Minister Gérald Darmanin, to get solutions to their many questions: Who’s going to Paris or elsewhere? How are we going to seek out lodging within the capital? “It’s now, six months earlier than the opening of the Video games, that every one this must be organized,” assert the Alliance and Unsa-Police union representatives.
However that they had no actual solutions.
The Ministry of the Inside has introduced an total price range of €500 million, which can pay out between €500 and €1,000 to every police officer, in addition to two further weeks’ go away (in June or September) as compensation. However this appears too little for the unions, who’re calling for a €2,000 bonus and a childcare scheme.
Mathieu Weber, Unsa-Police Moselle departmental delegate
- Police unions reminiscent of UNSA-Police (a majority union), for which you’re departmental delegate in Moselle, are calling for a “Black Thursday” throughout France. What are the explanations for this outburst of anger?
It’s not a case of anger, however of actual anger concerning the group of the Paris Olympics. In reality, the Video games have been deliberate for a very long time and, so far as the police are involved, we’ve no info on the sensible particulars… Who will likely be leaving? How lengthy will it take? The place will we keep? The place will we eat? What would be the accompanying measures, notably as regards the care of our youngsters? We don’t know a factor!
- The union representatives had been acquired by their supervisory minister, Gérald Darmanin, who made some proposals. Aren’t they sufficient?
We’ve had no clear reply from our minister, nor any dedication, and that’s our downside. My colleagues aren’t in opposition to the Olympic Video games, they only need time to get organized.
- What are your calls for and the way far are you ready to go to get them? We wish to know the foundations of the sport earlier than the sport begins. As I mentioned, the compensatory bonus is just not the one difficulty. We’ll sustain the stress on the administration till we get a passable reply.
