“Attacking me is okay, but don’t touch my baby. » This is in essence the rant that Anne Hidalgo made this Wednesday at the Paris Council. Accustomed to “Hidalgo Bashing”, the mayor of Paris lost her temper against the continued criticism of the Paris 2024 Olympics.
A “fed up with the bashing of the Games” expressed by the city councilor, promising that “popular enthusiasm will increase” between now and the global event (from July 26 to August 11).
In the municipal council, the elected socialist, who had actively participated in 2017 in obtaining the event, thus made known her “fed up with all these difficulties-to-enjoy who have not at all I want to be able to celebrate something together.” “Open your eyes and ears and let yourself be surprised, because it’s going to be an absolutely exceptional moment,” the mayor said to the skeptics.
A fervor that “rises”, according to Anne Hidalgo
For the mayor, “popular fervor” is “rising in an extremely powerful way” with the journey of the Olympic flame, which has crisscrossed the country since May 8. “This popular enthusiasm will come and go in Paris,” assured Anne Hidalgo.
With 15 million visitors and 3.5 billion viewers expected, “all our Parisians, all our traders, the soul of Paris, will be in the spotlight” and will remind us that “Paris is the world capital of gastronomy and fashion”, for his part underlined the deputy for commerce (PCF) Nicolas Bonnet-Oulaldj, also deploring the “negative stories” to say “above all, do not come to the Olympics”.
And the deputy recalled that on June 23, during Fashion Week, the editor-in-chief of Vogue Anna Wintour “is going to do a special event in Paris”, Place Vendôme, “because she considers that Paris is the beating heart of fashion, and that there are the Olympics”.