Alps 2030 Olympic Games: the Constitutional Council validates the Olympic law, the aim of which is to facilitate the preparation of the event

A confirmation, but reservations. The Constitutional Council validated on Thursday the Olympic law intended to facilitate the preparation of the 2030 Winter Olympic Games in the Alps, one month after being seized by rebellious and environmentalist deputies. The bill, some measures of which were considered repressive by the left, will notably allow temporary exemptions from common law in matters of security, work and even town planning.

The Constitutional Council considered that “fulfilling the obligations linked to the timely organization” of the 2030 Olympics “is an objective of general interest”, but issued two reservations of interpretation concerning the “ban on appearing” at the scene of a major event which could be pronounced against individuals in order to prevent “acts of terrorism”.

He explains that “the administration must take into account” the “previous administrative measures restricting the freedom to come and go” of the person targeted by this ban to establish its duration. The cumulative duration must not exceed “strictly necessary” nor, for a given location, twelve months.

Adopted at the beginning of February

Among the other appeals in their referral of February 13, the deputies of La France Insoumise and the Ecologists attacked in particular “the extension until 2027 of the experimentation of an algorithmic video surveillance device”, the facilitated taking of “possession of buildings” for the Olympic villages or even the possibility for private security agents to carry out visual inspections of vehicles and their trunks.

The Olympic law was definitively adopted by Parliament on February 5 after a final vote in the Senate. Thursday before the Constitutional Council’s decision, environmentalist parliamentarians contacted the National Commission for Public Debate about the 2030 Olympics with the aim of “obtaining a democratic debate” and allowing “the citizens and territories concerned to decide on the advisability” of these Games.