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French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe arrives in Saint-Denis to chair an inter-ministerial committee on the Olympic Games, before kicking off the construction of the Paris-2024 athletes' village. IMAGES
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Prime Minister Jean Castex arrives in Grigny to chair an interministerial committee for the town, organised in this commune south of Paris, three days from the Beauvau de la sécurité - a government-led national debate on the future of the national police force. IMAGES
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe kicks off the construction of the Paris-2024 athletes' village in Saint-Ouen. IMAGES
In 500 days on Tuesday, the 2024 Summer Olympics will burst into life in Paris as the teams float down the River Seine on barges in a unique opening ceremony. The Paris Olympics and Paralympics have a lot riding on them -- they involve the return of full crowds of spectators to the world's greatest sporting spectacle after the Covid-blighted Summer Games in Tokyo in 2021 and the Winter Olympics in Beijing last year. On top of that, the spending on the Games is being scrutinised as never before -- venues are focused on Seine-Saint-Denis, the poorest area in France.