French police raid Paris 2024 Summer Games headquarters, other sites in investigation of alleged financial improprieties.
French police raided the headquarters for the 2024 Summer Games in Paris as well as other sites tied to next year’s Olympics on Tuesday in connection with “two ‘preliminary investigations’ into financial improprieties with contracts and public funds,” CNN reported.
International Olympic Committee officials had little to say Tuesday about the raids.
“Transparency (and) cooperation are the two watchwords,” IOC Olympic Games Executive Director Christophe Dubi told reporters in French, according to a simultaneous translation. He said the situation was “very tense. It was very difficult today.”
With the Paris organizing committee committed to those same watchwords, “there is only one thing we can do and that is to wait for the result of this inquiry,” Dubi said, adding he believes “Paris 2024 took the right attitude.
