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Olympic Flame Arrives In France Amid Tight Security In Test Run For Paris Opening Ceremony

The Olympic flame touched down in France on Wednesday with some 150,000 people gathering in the southern city of Marseille’s historic port area to watch its transfer onto French soil after a 12-day journey from Greece in a hundred-year-old three-masted sailing ship. The flame’s arrival in France sparked a day of debate in the local media on whether the country and Paris in particular would be ready for the 2024 games running from July 26 to August 11, both physically and in spirit. In March, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced the that number would be closer to 326,000 and possibly lower, due to crowd control measures as well as security concerns amid a heightened terrorism threat.

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