The 2022 investigation followed an audit by the French Anti-corruption Agency. The probe opened in 2017 is looking into suspected embezzlement of public funds and favoritism, and concerns about an unspecified contract reached by Paris organizers, the prosecutor’s office said. “It’s the size of the event that makes it necessary, whatever the country.”
“For us, an event of Olympic proportions cannot be held without corruption,” the group said in a statement. Saccage 2024, an anti-Olympics group that argues that the Games cause widespread ecological and social damage, said it was “very pleased” the raids took place. The organizers and Paris city hall have stressed a spirit of transparency and social justice - including planning an opening ceremony outdoors along the Seine River that will be free for up to half a million people. The biggest event France is hosting in decades, the Games are being billed as a celebration of openness after two Olympics closed off by the COVID-19 pandemic, and as an example of democratic celebration after two World Cups tainted by human rights concerns in Qatar and Russia. Scandals around the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games led to reforms that limited IOC members’ contact with candidate countries, though did not entirely remove the scope for corruption.īut Paris 2024 had gone to lengths to prove it would be different. Accusations of vote buying linked to the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and the Tokyo Games in 2021 led to the removal of several members of the IOC.
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