- Police Search Paris 2024 Olympic Games Organizers’ Headquarters
- Investigations Affecting France’s Olympic Movement
- Upcoming Schedule for Paris 2024 Olympic Games
French police are searching for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games organizers’ headquarters.
The searches, according to officials, are part of two preliminary corruption investigations.
Police are investigating allegations of favoritism and misuse of public funds in the awarding of construction contracts.
A spokesperson for the Paris 2024 organizing committee told that the organization was “fully cooperating with investigators.”
The BBC’s Hugh Schofield in Paris reports that anti-corruption investigators arrived unannounced at the headquarters of the Olympics organizing committee in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis on Tuesday, as well as at the offices of Solideo, the public body in charge of construction projects for the games.
The Olympic Games of 2024 will be held from 26 July to 11 August, while the Paralympics will be held in September.
The police investigations on Tuesday are the most recent incident affecting France’s Olympic movement and sports in general over the past few months.
In May, Brigitte Henriques, president of the French National Olympic Committee, resigned in a decision that surprised many sports experts.
Ms. Henriques’ decision was made amid reports of intense intra-organizational conflict.
Following high-profile controversies, the leaders of France’s football and rugby federations resigned earlier in the year.
