‘No Plan B’ for Paris Opening Ceremony After Knife Attack: Sports Minister

Published on December 4, 2023

There is no “plan B” for the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games, the French sports minister said on Monday, after a man armed with a knife and hammer killed a German tourist and left two people wounded near the Eiffel Tower on Saturday. “We have no plan B, we have a plan in which there are several sub-plans with a certain number of adjustment variables,” Amelie Oudea-Castera told France Inter radio. The 26-year-old suspect, a French national arrested after the attack, had pledged allegiance to ISIS terrorist group in a video recorded beforehand, anti-terrorism Prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said on Sunday....

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