Nancy Ing is a Paris-based producer.
PARIS — The number of people allowed to watch the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics along the Seine River in Paris will be capped at 325,000, the French government announced Tuesday, apparently confirming that original plans to offer tickets to hundreds of thousands of spectators had been scaled back.
The Paris police prefecture last month slashed that proposed crowd size in half, to 300,000. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin was quoted as saying government officials were mindful of potential security risks. 'To manage crowd movement, we can’t tell everyone to come,' Darmanin said, according to The Associated Press. 'For security reasons that everyone understands, notably the terrorist threat of recent weeks, we are obliged to make it free but contained.
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