パリ五輪組織委に再び家宅捜索、不正疑惑で 関係筋

【フランスＡＦＰ＝時事】フランスの捜査当局が、２０２４年パリ五輪・パラリンピックの大会組織委員会本部や五輪の開会式に関与しているイベント企業の事務所などを家宅捜索したと、捜査に近い筋が１９日、ＡＦＰの取材で明かした。（写真は資料写真）
　情報筋によれば、家宅捜索はパリ五輪の契約をめぐり不正な便宜供与があったとして仏金融検察局（ＰＮＦ）が主導している捜査の一環で、１８日に行われた。
　組織委も本部がＰＮＦの家宅捜索を受けたことを認め、捜査に全面協力しているとコメントした。
　パリ五輪関連の不正疑惑をめぐっては、最初に６月に組織委の本部と大会施設の建設を担当する公社「ＳＯＬＩＤＥＯ」が家宅捜索を受けている。その後も、組織委のエティエネ・トボワ最高経営責任者（ＣＥＯ）ら幹部の自宅などで家宅捜索が行われた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/10/20-19:18）

French investigators have raided the offices of the 2024 Paris Olympics organisers and event management firms involved in the opening ceremony, sources close to the probe told AFP on Thursday.
The sources said the raids took place on Wednesday as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged favouritism in the awarding of contracts linked to the Olympics.
The searches are part of investigations into contracts awarded for the Games that are being led by the French National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF).
Paris 2024 confirms that the PNF attended its headquarters on Wednesday, October 18 and obtained all of the information that it asked for. Paris 2024 is cooperating fully with the investigation as it has always done, the organising committee said in a statement.
The searches on Wednesday focused on an event management company called Paname 24, which has a leading role in organising the opening ceremony on the Seine on July 26, an event that takes the event outside of a stadium setting for the first time at a Summer Olympics.
It is also scheduled to organise the opening ceremony of the Paralympics on August 28.
The first raids took place in June, targeting the organising committee's headquarters and the offices of Solideo, the company responsible for the construction of Olympic sites.
Investigators then also raided the homes of two of its high-ranking officials, Etienne Thobois, the Chief Executive Officer of Paris 2024, and Edouard Donnelly, the executive director of operations, and the offices of a consulting firm the two men founded.
A source close to the investigation said it concerned around 20 contracts.
The Paris Olympics take place from July 26 to August 11.