PARIS (AP) — France’s interior minister praised security forces after no major issues were reported Friday during the opening ceremony of the Olympics.
Authorities had deployed a massive security operation in Paris to keep the event safe. The capital’s streets were blocked off, with squadrons of police patrolling and imposing metal-fence security barriers erected like an iron curtain on both sides of the River Seine. Up to 45,000 police and gendarmes as well as 10,000 soldiers have been deployed for Olympic security.
Here’s a look at what’s happened with security so far:
No major incidents at opening ceremony
“We did it,” French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on the social platform X, praising an “event without incident.”