PARIS — Israeli athletes will receive 24-hour protection during the Paris Olympics, France's interior minister said, after a far-left lawmaker said Israel's delegation was not welcome and called for protests against their participation.
French President Emmanuel Macron and Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin listen to Paris police Prefect Laurent Nunez on a visit to the police station of the Olympic village for the 2024 Summer Olympics, in Paris, France, July 22, 2024.PARIS — Israeli athletes will receive 24-hour protection during the Paris Olympics, France's interior minister said, after a far-left lawmaker said Israel's delegation was not welcome and called for protests against their participation.
Darmanin spoke after far-left France Unbowed party lawmaker Thomas Portes was filmed saying Israel's Olympic athletes were not welcome in France, and that there should be protests against their taking part in the Games. On Monday, Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne said at a meeting with European Union counterparts in Brussels: "I want to say on behalf of France, to the Israeli delegation, we welcome you to France for these Olympic Games."
Some LFI lawmakers offered a partial defence of Portes' comments. Manuel Bompard, a senior party official and lawmaker, wrote on social media platform X that he supported Portes "in the face of the wave of hatred he is experiencing. In a sign of the complex security issues surrounding the Israeli delegation, a memorial ceremony for the Israeli athletes killed in the 1972 Munich attack has been moved from outside Paris' City Hall to the Israeli embassy.
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