The edition 69 of the International Film Festival of Cannes, which begins today, will be the most watched in history because of the threat of attacks hanging over France since the terrorist attacks last year in the city of Paris and keeps the country on high alert ࡿfinales oࡿficial until July.
The spa at the end of last April made a mock reaction to an attempt to prepare for a possible attack on the Palace Festivals, has deployed a special device even includes a team of lifeguards on beaches and closure of part of the coast if an attack occurred on the beach as happened last year in Tunisia.
some 400 private security agents 200 municipal police Cannes, 200 cameras harbor and national police and gendarmes will be added to monitor and maintain the security of the more than 40,000 participants from around the world attending from tomorrow until 22 May and considered the most prestigious film festival and glamorous world.
the device also includes canine explosive detection units and expert teams artiࡿcieros bomb disposal, as well as four mobile units intervention forces, among others, reported official sources.
exepcional mobilization. “Faced with a higher risk than ever” this year, the event will feature a “exceptional mobilization” said French Minister of the Interior (Interior), Bernard Cazeneuve, who yesterday visited the Festival Palace spa Costa Azul in which there will be the film event.
the maximum responsible for security in France confirmed that “exceptional means, several hundred police every day,” will be deployed to ensure the celebration of the world’s most important festival. “We are facing a risk that has never been so high and facing a determined enemy attack us at every moment,” said Cazeneuve before the heads of the festival, Thierry Fremaux and Pierre Lescure, to justiࡿcar deployment.
the official explained that the quotas assigned security are very important because the festival “represents a particular challenge for the international brightness of France”.
Since Tuesday, when they start and get the first attendees, and appreciate some reinforced at the entrance to the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, the main venue of the event, where are controlled all people and open systematically all bags controls.
the luxury hotels Paseo the Croisette, as the Martinez hotel, also increased for this edition the number of security officers at the high level of terrorist threat, told local media the hotel management, one of the most emblematic of Cannes next to the hotel Carlton, where the big stars of the event
stay. “All hotels were commissioned intensify surveillance, but neither is putting fences everywhere,” he told reporters the president of the association hoteliers of Cannes, Michel Chevillon.
the safety device, which includes control through metal detectors, threatens to further increase the long lines at most thousands of festival participants have to form to attend screenings.
More than 4,000 journalists will cover this year’s event, which confirmed their participation actors like Julia Roberts, George Clooney and Robert De Niro and directors like Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen and Pedro Almodóvar, among others.
on April 21 a group of 180 people staged at the Palais des Festivals, whose facade the famous red carpet at Cannes is located, an assault committed by four terrorists and explosion of a car bomb.
in sham elite forces intervened Gendarmerie and the French National Police. Notimex
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