“Can you confirm for us that the cost of the deviation in the state budget for the Olympic and Paralympic Games amounts to 1.9 billion that were not budgeted? Why had they not been budgeted for, at least in part? » Charles de Courson, deputy of Liot and general rapporteur of the finance commission, addresses the Minister of Budget and Public Accounts, Laurent Saint-Martin, heard on Thursday, November 7 by said commission in the framework of the examination of the draft law end of financial management. (PLFG 2024).
The minister is reviewing the files. “These are essentially personnel costs, a lot in the interior and in defense”, Mr. Saint-Martin advances. “There are credits that are also related to the cost of bonuses for Olympic staff, but this still affects many ministries”continue. And to conclude, addressed to the general rapporteur: “That is the order of magnitude. This is a landing that obviously remains to be refined at this stage, but it is the amount that you mentioned. »
It is not a “surplus figure”
According to Bercy estimates communicated to the commission, the additional cost of Paris 2024 with respect to the budgeted appropriations is around €1.6 billion. In particular, these are bonuses derived from operations to secure the event. At the beginning of the year, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced bonuses of up to 1,900 euros for gendarmes and police. Tens of thousands of law enforcement personnel were mobilized each day during the event: 35,000 at the height of the Games in the Paris region, 45,000 during the opening ceremony on July 26.
Contacted by The EchoesThe Ministry of Budgets and Public Accounts explains that of the 1,600 million euros, 700 million correspond to personnel expenses (mobilization bonus, overtime, guards and interventions) and around 900 million to other expenses (accommodation costs, unit costs of equipment, travel costs, food costs, etc.).
But this does not correspond to “an overflowing figure”Bercy assures, two thirds have been absorbed by the ministries. The net openings of credits, linked to the PLFG 2024, reach around 500 million for the Ministry of the Interior and less than 100 million for the Armed Forces, the economic newspaper states.
