Guest on France Info this Thursday early evening, the president of the Paca region returned to the arrival ceremony of the Olympic flame for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Marseille, which saw Jul light the symbolic cauldron.
“He is an exceptional singer but it is not his place,” considered the former minister of Jacques Chirac, now a member of Renaissance. “He pays tribute to the “zone”, he does not pay tribute to the Olympic Games, he does not pay tribute to France,” regretted the elected official in reference to “thank you the zone”, his gimmick, a signature dropped by Jul in mondovision after lighting the flame. The Paca region spent around 300,000 euros for this ceremony.
A supercharged atmosphere
The first cauldron of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games was lit on Wednesday at 7:35 p.m. in Marseille by Jul, French rap star, in front of a crowd gathered in the Old Port of France’s second city.
In a charged atmosphere, the Marseille artist received the Olympic torch from the hands of Paralympic athletics champion Nantenin Keita, daughter of Malian musician Salif Keita, who herself received it from Florent Manaudou, Olympic 50-meter champion. freestyle swimming in 2012 in London, the first bearer of the flame on French soil after his descent from the three-masted Belem.