Poland To Send Troops To Paris Olympics Amid Security Challenge

WARSAW: Poland stated on Thursday it’ll be part of worldwide efforts to assist hold the Olympic Games in France secure by sending troops, together with sniffer canine handlers, as organizers put together for the key safety problem.

The French authorities raised the nation’s terror alert warning to its highest stage on Sunday, following the shootings in Moscow, only a few months earlier than the video games kick off on July 26.

“The Polish Armed Forces will join the international coalition established by France to support the preparations and security of the 2024 Summer Olympics,” Poland’s defence minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz wrote on social media platform X.

“A task force of our soldiers, including dog handlers, will be sent to Paris. Its main goal will be to undertake activities related to the detection of explosives and counteracting terrorist phenomena.”

The announcement was made on the day France’s chief of defence employees Thierry Burkhard visited Warsaw.

A Polish army spokesperson stated particulars of the association have been nonetheless being labored out and can be offered at a later date.

In mid-March Paris authorities strengthened the police presence within the northern suburb of La Courneuve close to the Paris 2024 Olympics Village after an assault on a police station within the suburb.

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