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France will deploy 35,000 security and military personnel to protect the Paris 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony from threats including drone attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n The opening ceremony will take place along a 6km stretch of the River Seine, featuring 160 boats with athletes and officials from more than 200 countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Crowds of more than 600,000 people are expected to line the route.<\/span><\/p>\n “Drones represent a totally new threat,” said French interior minister Gerald Darmanin.<\/span><\/p>\n “We’ve done a lot of work on the classic threat, whether it’s delinquents, whether it is a person armed with a weapon, a bomb… We know how to detect and combat this threat.<\/span><\/p>\n “The arrival of drones loaded with explosives in the theatre of civilian operations is new. There is no certainty this threat will materialise, but it is the hardest to stop.”<\/span><\/p>\n The Paris 2024 opening ceremony will be the first held outside of a stadium at a summer Games.<\/span><\/p>\n Organisers are planning to install the Olympic flame on the Eiffel Tower, although not on the top of the monument.<\/span><\/p>\n