The Super-Complex Security of the Paris Olympics

I can already imagine next year in the accountants office: “the trip to the Olympics was tax deductible because I shot footage for a video I made about the Olympics”

I'm sure half the security is going to be protecting the Eiffel Tower from getting any pictures taken of it.

HAI really did Amy dirty by not sending her to the Olympics.

LAPD: "Okay we'll go to the Olympics but ONLY if we can bring our guns :P"

"LAPD officers go to Paris to fight crime" Did they send Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan?

The stock footage of a guy holding a molotov with the words "I am not good with that." in the most innocuous font possible goes incredibly hard, I need a 2 by 4m print of this

glad that Amy saw croisants in person

As someone that works in cybersecurity… never openly announce how secure your systems are. People take it as a challenge.

Hi Sam! Shoutouts to Amy for winning the Olympic gold medal in Municipal Security. She deserves a raise!

Worth noting that those military patrolling with rifles is normal in Paris outside of olympic times. They have a Nando's spicy scale for terrorism risk called vigipirate and when it's at its highest level (which it almost always is) you see military men marching through the street around major tourist sites. I believe it is currently at its highest level because of a mass stabbing at a school last October. As you can imagine, this is massively controversial. Especially when France (and Paris especially) already has a very controversial police force whom they deploy in very large numbers to every protest, whether there's any reason to believe it could become vilent or not.

We went to Paris before the Olympics and got into a conversation with a police officer at the Arc du Triomphe. She was really cool and nice. It was like just chatting with someone your age at a random park, except she was also carrying a very large gun. It was kind of a strange dichotomy.

Army patrolling with arms in cities is really not a new thing in France, it's been this way for a long time in many big cities and it has sadly become a usual sight for many. Also, pretty sure many French would take the head-splitting sounds to dispel crowds in place of the incredibly absurd amount of tear gases we get to breathe for any minor event. For sure, the Olympics helped going even further into the dismantling of public liberties on behalf of security, but it's far from a new thing and the last governments didn't even need any international event to do it. (Although, seeing some comments : you absolutely don't have to worry about coming in France, the country is no more dangerous than any other)

1:52 - That's not actually the security fences used for the olympics - that's just barriers around a building site in the Ilot Saint-Germain. The shot at 2:23 is what the whole barrier actually look like for the whole thing.

In the countries that sent cops to the Paris Olympics, you forgot to mention Canada, and more specifically Quebec, as there’s about 16 Canadian cops in assistance, of which there are 10 from Quebec

What? You guys didn't even send Amy to Paris to test the security? Journalism has really fallen off 😢

Hey you know what is also funny about this cops in the city ! When cops from all over France went to Paris, some of them were housed on student campus. Campus where student were evicted a few weeks before. And guess what, to add to the craziness, some cops complains about the insalubrity of the rooms. And it's the same campus where student protested about health issues caused by insalubrity.

Amy's absolutely unhinged camera work gets me every time

We were walking up river past Bercy to Ivry Sur Seine. They had installed tempery solar powered CCTV cameras every 100m or so by the Seine. Never seen anything like it.

The A/B plot + a conclusion that points to a wider issue. Well done on the construction of a video narrative!

Liberté, Égalité, Renault Coupé