Are these going to be the most dangerous Olympics ever? It’s not just the likelihood of swimmers developing new and exotic diseases from being submerged in the filthy Seine. With Islamic terror waging war in the Middle East and across Europe, the greatest obvious danger is swivel-eyed Mahommedans or even more demented leftist anti-Semites causing bloody mayhem.
Already, the sheer scale of the terror threat is becoming clear. To the surprise of absolutely no-one, hundreds of jihadis have been caught trying to get a job inside the Olympics.
Thousands of known criminals, including Islamist radicals and suspects with close links to Islamist and extremist political positions have been denied access within the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games.
French interior minister Gerald Darmanin confirmed that more than three thousand people had been refused accreditations for the Games, including more than 100 of those deemed to be the highest threat to national security.
A security pass would be the golden ticket for a jihadi. France has already thwarted two planned attacks.
Accredited personnel are able to access the internal areas of the Olympic Games precinct and as well as officials, athletes and media, the accreditations include the Games workforce such as volunteers, hospitality staff, drivers, venue security, and technicians.
Nearly a million people are involved in the Games in some capacity and have been subject to French police security checks. With less than two weeks until the July 26 opening ceremony Mr Darmanin said 3512 people had been refused accreditation because they could pose a threat to the security of the event.
He said 130 of those were rejected on state security grounds having been on the French government’s Fiche S, which is a watchlist of terror suspects.
Dozens of people with ties to radical Islamists, or the ultra-Left and ultra-Right, were also turned down, Mr Darmanin said.
The question is: with such an obviously dedicated effort by jihadis to infiltrate the Games, how many sleepers might have slipped through?
Up to 45,000 French police and military personnel will be deployed to protect the Olympic Games, in addition to 22,000 private contractors working on venue security. That has been bolstered by nearly 2000 security specialists from 40 allied nations arriving in the French capital this week.
Presumably, the French won’t be relying on the US Secret Service. They certainly aren’t taking chances.
Ministry officials said foreign nations are assisting in critical areas such as dog-handling teams to detect explosives, bomb-deactivation experts and other counter-terrorism operations […]
Some sections of central Paris have already been closed in preparation for the Games, while the activation of three rings of tighter security measures are ready to be activated from next week.
The Australian
The last time Paris hosted the Games was in the aftermath of WWII. Germany and Japan were not invited to attend.
If only the French had remembered the wisdom of not inviting the enemies of civilisation into your country in the decades after.
