The Super-Complex Security of the Paris Olympics

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[@SnehPatel96]

I can already imagine next year in the accountants office: “the trip to the Olympics was tax deductible because I shot footage for a video I made about the Olympics”

[@frayien]

Yep, that's how tax works

[@JessicaRainbow]

That is literally how tax deductions work

[@superhenkable]

@@JessicaRainbow I think you missed his point

[@artistwithouttalent]

It's been a minute, but unless Biden has unscrewed it up, business expenses were made no longer deductible under Trump's tax act in 2017.

[@PrimaryDye]

Because the trip is no longer a leisure trip, but a commercial activity?

[@petroleumcrusader]

The stock footage of a guy holding a molotov with the words "I am not good with that." in the most innocuous font possible goes incredibly hard, I need a 2 by 4m print of this

[@samdaugherty7585]

Put it on a shirt

[@lonestarr1490]

On what kind of shirt are they supposed to put a 2 by 4m print?! Use your brain, man!

[@kirstena9994]

I don't think supporting fast fashion and capitalism is their goal, but I could be wrong. ​@@samdaugherty7585

[@weichang9693]

@@lonestarr1490 a really big one

[@addisalemayehu7546]

@@lonestarr1490 WHY? HE SAVED IT FOR EMERGENCY TIMES

[@A5hq]

HAI really did Amy dirty by not sending her to the Olympics.

[@Gabledbank]

agreed

[@sayorancode]

at least she found good stock footage :P

[@Aturtle8]

I thought that HAI was going say the Amy was going to the Olympics

[@daniels.2720]

...but, like most of us, she was @ the Olympics > just not 'geographically close'

[@general...anxiety]

@@sayorancode😂😂

[@zackkatz7815]

Hey Parisian here. Just so you know, the camera you pointed out is not a fancy AI camera, it's actually just the camera that the metro conductors use to make sure no one is going to get stuck when they close the doors aha

[@yesevoi]

I'm sure half the security is going to be protecting the Eiffel Tower from getting any pictures taken of it.

[@R4V3-0N]

At niiiight!

[@sayorancode]

no more like 90% of security

[@GoldClav]

Imagine getting arrested for taking pics of Eiffel Tower in the night

[@KafshakTashtak]

Technically it's illegal if you sell it.

[@jojoknight]

#ded

[@PolarManne]

"LAPD officers go to Paris to fight crime" Did they send Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan?

[@prestonlee2842]

Dominic Choi is Korean, comparing him to Jackie Chan is insulting and racist.

[@bowizthejoblessgwiji3128]

😂😂

[@somerandomguy-3102]

@@prestonlee2842 who the fuck is dominic choi

[@Dummz]

@@prestonlee2842 When did OP mention Dominic? He was referencing “Rush Hour”, a movie starring Chris and Jackie

[@fort809]

But did they send Chris Chan?

[@General12th]

Hi Sam! Shoutouts to Amy for winning the Olympic gold medal in Municipal Security. She deserves a raise!

[@justicesportsman6020]

As someone that works in cybersecurity… never openly announce how secure your systems are. People take it as a challenge.

[@mnm1273]

I don't think you need to worry about decreasing interest in the Olympics. People who want to target it have already noticed it.

[@justicesportsman6020]

@@mnm1273 never said anything about trying to decrease interest.

[@TheGahta]

@@justicesportsman6020 as someone understanding human psychology telling people how secure things are is very correlated to them wanting to go there

[@izab3ru]

Correct.

[@notmenotme614]

By announcing the capabilities, you’re not only telling people what it can do, but the hostiles will be able to flip the statement to work out what it can’t do or doesn’t know.

[@PabloArielLujanCayaduro]

glad that Amy saw croisants in person

[@duas9468]

I heard they’re really chill

[@wildfire9280]

@@duas9468 we should like join them or something

[@TheRealPOTUSDavidByrd]

LAPD: "Okay we'll go to the Olympics but ONLY if we can bring our guns :P"

[@effbar2400]

Let's hope they don't see any black people

[@TheGahta]

@@effbar2400 in France? 🤣🤭

[@canoeguy]

Fairfax County, VA Police are also in France, also with their firearms.

[@Sugondeeze]

*What are they gonna do without their "babies"?* 👨‍🍼

[@Spencergolde]

​@canoeguy Yeah, but wasn't that footage also showing the French police with assault rifles? Aren't they all carrying? Like it's funny that that was there stipulation but they all seem to be packing

[@benjaminclehmann]

Worth noting that those military patrolling with rifles is normal in Paris outside of olympic times. They have a Nando's spicy scale for terrorism risk called vigipirate and when it's at its highest level (which it almost always is) you see military men marching through the street around major tourist sites. I believe it is currently at its highest level because of a mass stabbing at a school last October. As you can imagine, this is massively controversial. Especially when France (and Paris especially) already has a very controversial police force whom they deploy in very large numbers to every protest, whether there's any reason to believe it could become vilent or not.

[@baudsp]

Yeah, I remember going to a protest that went through Paris a few years ago, one that wasn't likely to turn violent (and didn't) and was really surprised to see soldiers with assault rifles walking around. The riot police on the other side was there as expected

[@CatgirlExplise6039]

@@baudspFrance is a country that fights for what they morally believe in, turns out, government doesn’t like morals,

[@kremepye3613]

Crazy what happens when ☪️ comes to your country.

[@kalamari3288]

Deploying large amounts of police to every protest? Yeah that’s definitely a full-time job in France.

[@EricLondaits]

I visited both London and Paris in the aftermath of terrorist attacks (Charlie Hebdo + Eagles of Death Metal, 2017 London Bridge attack). I saw the military with rifles everywhere in Paris, but there was nothing of note in London. My conclusion was that London was probably using at least as many security personnel as Paris but that they were probably in civilian clothes. As horrific as the French open display of army rifles in touristic areas was, I appreciated its transparency in comparison. I assume French people prefer to know when they have cops and soldiers around.

[@agoatmannameddesire8856]

We went to Paris before the Olympics and got into a conversation with a police officer at the Arc du Triomphe. She was really cool and nice. It was like just chatting with someone your age at a random park, except she was also carrying a very large gun. It was kind of a strange dichotomy.

[@lonestarr1490]

Well, after all they're just normal people doing their job. And if their job requires them to carry around an automatic unaliver of humongous size, then they gotta do it. I've found that when chatting to police officers you need to give them a few moments to get out of their "police-y" conduct. They're trained to judge the danger level of any situation constantly, so they need time to adjust to a non-threatening situation in order to talk and behave like a normal human being (a.k.a. like themselves at non-office hours).

[@thunderbolt8409]

let me guess you are not arabian or black (not to be an asshole but it's a reality in France: maghreb = ID check)

[@kobikaicalev175]

Maybe she was just glad to see you

[@comicus01]

I visited Paris in 2019 a week before the Notre Dame fire. Stayed in the 1st Arrondissement, within spitting distance of Tuliers. I go out on the street on Saturday morning and the Rue de Rivoli, which was normally loud and busy with traffic, was silent. Get to the corner near Place de La Concorde, and there's a bunch of heavily armed police there with armored vehicles. We ask them what's going on, and there was a Yellow Vest protest going on. This was maybe a year after they started? Every Saturday morning the protesters would be out on the Champs-Élysées, and they would shut it down to traffic and have the police out in force as well to quell any violence. They didn't mind talking to us as we were obviously tourists. The one annoying thing was they also closed a number of the Metro stations on line 1 (the trains still ran, they just didn't stop at 5 or 6 stations)

[@Fife-Casio]

Hey you know what is also funny about this cops in the city ! When cops from all over France went to Paris, some of them were housed on student campus. Campus where student were evicted a few weeks before. And guess what, to add to the craziness, some cops complains about the insalubrity of the rooms. And it's the same campus where student protested about health issues caused by insalubrity.

[@davidoh14]

oh, all those homeless degenerates needed to leave Paris. Suppose they were given temporary housing in all these cops homes. Only seems fair.

[@strawberrykun6136]

Who tf says insalubrity

[@Martititi]

@@strawberrykun6136 it's a french word for an unsanitary place to live

[@ajnart_]

@@strawberrykun6136it’s because the guy writing this is an angry French person

[@Fife-Casio]

@@ajnart_ 🤣 I wouldn't call my self angry but yeah I'm french and I knew only this word to describe the situation

[@kv4648]

The A/B plot + a conclusion that points to a wider issue. Well done on the construction of a video narrative!

[@lonestarr1490]

Yes! Exceptionally well written. I did not expect the discussion about the introduction of measures of surveillance and oppression under the pretext of securing events of international significance. That kind of broader perspective is usually reserved for Wendover Productions, but, if done right (what they achieved here), it also fits quite well with the satirical tone of HAI.

[@peterkelford]

1:52 - That's not *actually* the security fences used for the olympics - that's just barriers around a building site in the Ilot Saint-Germain. The shot at 2:23 is what the whole barrier actually look like for the whole thing.

[@LoveDager]

Oh this goes into the video of mistakes!

[@peterkelford]

@@LoveDager That's coming up later this month actually isn't it? Do you reckon they've already written it?

[@peterkelford]

P.S. HAI Writers - if you're reading this the building you inadvertently used is quite interesting. It was the "French pentagon" until a few years ago (moved to a place called Balard now - might be an interesting place to talk about) and is now being sold to Qataris.

[@Gruizux]

The “no fly zone around disney world” you showed on the map (1:14) is not even over disney. WDW and the entirety of orlando is north of the yellow area you have there. The real no-fly zone is a small 3nm radius circle around the park. The area pictured in the video is a separate restriction put in temporarily by the FAA that no longer exists. Several flight routes regularly pass over that region. Source: I am an Orlando local that is also a casual plane spotter at MCO.

[@ZetaPyro]

Wow Sam got something wrong about planes. What are the odds?

[@Gruizux]

@@ZetaPyro lmao

[@OVERDRIVE4825]

That's actually a combination airspace of Lake Placid military operation area (MOA), Marian MOA, and Avon MOA with Restricted Area 2901 going up the middle on the East side of Sebring. MOAs aren't restricted to civil flights and restricted areas are only restricted when the military activates the airspace reservation

[@Arakus99]

3 nanometers seems like a very small no fly zone :P

[@Bozzyplays]

I went to to olympics last weekend. It really felt like for each visitor they had 1 cop at the ready. I don't think I've ever seen so many police cars, trucks, vans and officers before

[@eucamong]

I had the great privilege of having tickets to these Olympics, and visiting Paris under these circumstances was really bizarre! I loved it, but it was quite something To cross the Seine you sometimes had to walk +1 km to go to an open bridge in the other direction of your travel because of all the closed bridges, you heard helicopters 24/7 above you, checkpoints EVERYWHERE, and the streets were car free basically! Once in a lifetime experience definitely

[@dmurvihill]

Amy's absolutely unhinged camera work gets me every time

[@lonestarr1490]

Yeah. Why can't she just put that hinge back on the camera?

[@asamson23]

In the countries that sent cops to the Paris Olympics, you forgot to mention Canada, and more specifically Quebec, as there’s about 16 Canadian cops in assistance, of which there are 10 from Quebec

[@australierindeutschland]

and Australia too, armed with firearms :)

[@pizzagroom6221]

well yeah of course most of them are from Quebec. literally every other province (except NB) has but a handful of people that can speak French, and often it's just because they purposefully learn it, or had to for their government job

[@stocktonnash]

they should stay

[@CptPatch]

Quebec doesn't count as foreign, it's just France 2: Hydroelectric Boogaloo.

[@Droidman1231]

There are 35,000 cops and bro wants a shoutout for 16 cops lol

[@James_smith940]

We were walking up river past Bercy to Ivry Sur Seine. They had installed tempery solar powered CCTV cameras every 100m or so by the Seine. Never seen anything like it.

[@nateybear123]

Yeah I was there as well it was insane. I was able to get the pass into the gray zone for all days before as well and it was insane how few people were there. We got into a street right in front of the eiffel tower and were able to take pictures in front of it with nobody there and the police didn’t question why we were there. The security was insane

[@ninjasuperman9538]

The unnamed 8th thing is probably “suspicious persons/behavior”

[@Healermain15]

Which is basically "anybody we want".

[@TheGrinningViking]

Hamas members. (They have a history with targeting the Olympics.)

[@mayac4147]

@@TheGrinningViking unlike IDF members, who DEFINITELY don't have a history of targeting children, schools, mosques, or hospitals

[@zyansheep]

I have a feeling Amy secretly went to Paris for the Olympics...

[@CTSFanSam]

I understand she was secretly selling bricks there.

[@cgt3704]

Sam is such a good boss. He gives Amy a break from going to these cool places and takes her place for research (and fun).

[@theprimeyeeter]

What? You guys didn't even send Amy to Paris to test the security? Journalism has really fallen off 😢

[@joejo1t177]

Measuring with pizzas multiple times cracked me tf up😂

[@chfr]

3:37 Cause there is no cop like horse cop

[@SubmittedAndReadable]

This made me laugh harder than it should have

[@raznaak]

Heyyyyyy 😂

[@fur_avery]

send your police force into shock!

[@giantmonsterdad]

Great video as usual. FYI, the segment that started at 6:08? with the text over the cop car flashing lights? for sure needs an epilepsy warning. My epilepsy isn't THAT photo-sensitive, so it didn't make me seize, but it for sure made me sick to my stomach and made me have to size down the video until it stopped. So just, here's an epileptic person letting you know. Thanks.

[@diegogutierrez7149]

What's cool is he gives behind the scenes of the development process of the episode by making those little day-to-day commentaries about how he went to Paris instead of his assistant and how he did was like a cool boss and didn't force his employee to just do all the hard work and he actually did the little difficult math equation when he wanted to calculate how many pizzas it would be By the way, this was all written with voiced to text, so if there's like spelling errors just like, yeah

[@i.laurence6430]

Yep! I had an invitation for the opening ceremony. Came a day early from Normandy just in case trains ran into problems (ha!) and as I tried to take a bus across the river to my sister's from the train station, I was told it was impossible!! The next day, the ceremony was absolutely wondrous, super joyous and well worth that hassle (btw,fragile trolls incensed by the French pseudo-blasphem, please don't bother contradicting my opinion, unnecessary and unwelcome). Cops and army people every where, smiling and polite yet attentive: we all felt safer for it. I also attended one of the official D-Day 80th anniversary ceremony in June, and it was equally tightly secure. So I was pretty hopeful that the Olympics would go well. And they did. So it was all worth it from my point of view.

[@lobi7133]

1:15 "two and a half billion people" - add it to the list of small mistakes

[@ihateorphans]

"so i had to do it myself" he says, eleven seconds after that

[@_zzpza]

And showing the Place de la Concorde and saying Champs Elysees.

[@Pipe0481]

European billion

[@mariasolpersico7115]

Long billion

[@MikeC96]

I mean, technically 2.5 trillion is "over 2.5 billion," so he's not wrong

[@hariharanshekar3483]

Liberté, Égalité, Renault Coupé

[@rasmusvalli]

I came here only for this

[@lonestarr1490]

Liberté, Égalité, Surveïllancé

[@klaasdepaashaasmrhaas]

3:59 Wowowow, the netherlands also send 45! Not leaving us out aren't you?

[@AtrixInfinite]

Amazing analysis of the surveillance state trend. didn't see that coming, I thought this was just gonna be a logistics video. Killing it

[@Bigdog5400]

I went to Paris the week before the Olympics and had a pass for a day to see some sights*. Turns out the pass was good for every day as the police kept scanning the same one over and over again and kept letting us through... may have been a mistake or may have been by design, but was cool either way

[@sirBrouwer]

The fact that you had a pass means someone knows who you are. also seeing a tourist acting like a tourist is fine. It's more when someone who is not acting like they should be acting that they want to keep a eye on said person. I have watched a section of the security apparatus around kings day in the Netherlands. From a control point and it really just crowed management in the biggest part. (really cool to see)

[@nicolascommisso3151]

Army patrolling with arms in cities is really not a new thing in France, it's been this way for a long time in many big cities and it has sadly become a usual sight for many. Also, pretty sure many French would take the head-splitting sounds to dispel crowds in place of the incredibly absurd amount of tear gases we get to breathe for any minor event. For sure, the Olympics helped going even further into the dismantling of public liberties on behalf of security, but it's far from a new thing and the last governments didn't even need any international event to do it. (Although, seeing some comments : you absolutely don't have to worry about coming in France, the country is no more dangerous than any other)

[@tjoloi]

I went to the guadeloupe recently and was really surprised to see a group of armed "gendarme" casually roaming in a large mall. The french really don't fuck around

[@TidusleFlemard]

@@tjoloi Gendarmes are what the USA would call Military Police. They also serve in France as a rural police force outside cities.

[@davidoh14]

"Je suis Charlie" was sensationalised, understandably. Really? France, the only bastion of Freedom in EU that I understood, has a horribly militarised approach to assembly despite openly admitting the necessity? Real news for me to explore.

[@KhabibsJacuzzi]

​@@davidoh14there are 120 stabbings each DAY in France. Import the third world, become the third world.

[@jyi_dyvia]

​@@tjoloiIm from Guadeloupe ! Did you go to Destreland or Milenis ?

[@spencer1880]

Greatest bait and switch is mentioning amy a bunch and then having the writing credit be Ben

[@morkin_aka_jaycoolteen]

2:37 reminds of the berlin-wall, where east and west Germany got separated and all the metro stations in and from west/east Germany were closed (so basically "ghost stations"), but the Olympics is no official country and these "borders (or fences)" are just for separating zones.

[@val_de_maar]

1:15 Sam says that a pizza that size could feed 2,7 BILLION people, but the calculation shows 2,7 TRILLION. Another one for the mistake/error video! I've double checked, 2,77 trillion is the correct value for a pizza with an 80nm radius

[@DaleWrecker]

It's a european billion

[@val_de_maar]

@@DaleWrecker True, but in the next sentence, Sam says 11 TRILLION dollars to a number with the same amount of zeros

[@dukedragon28]

@@DaleWrecker He isnt European, and idk why we call it that given the fact that the only people that I know who use it are old mathematicians

[@DaleWrecker]

@@dukedragon28 i know he isn't. Long billion if you prefer then, but it's what is used in europe at least.

[@DaleWrecker]

@@val_de_maarmistake or inconsistency then

[@n0rmal953]

3:28 the Vigipirate system and it’s “Sentinelle” operation that deploys the military on the French territory has not to do with the Olympics but any major events or place that is potentially threatened by terrorism. Train stations , big stadiums, airports… they are patrolling but they are not going to shoot anyone

[@jayrigger7508]

So I really wish you had talked briefly about why so much security for the Olympics.. I know there is an obvious reason but I think mentioning Munich would have been a really good thing to add to this

[@TheGrinningViking]

I mean, the first ever act of international terrorism by a government against civilians was the Palestinians targeting the Olympics. It's reasonable they would be extra careful right now.

[@SaloCh]

I think they did a similar thing to the whole "using the event to justify changing policies" thing in Mexico in the world cup in the 70s, except that instead of more police power, they added tenure to cars to "fund the event", which is here to this day :') (I did not fact-check this though, someone said it to me, but still only the capital city has this tenure afaik so yk)

[@tinttiboi]

4:04 Qatar really did just say: "looks like the olympics are coming up, time to send some armored trucks into Paris"

[@grouch314]

I was at the olympics and the security was pretty intense. There were police everywhere, some of whom were carrying Very Big Guns. They seemed polite enough, but I didn't feel like messing with them

[@MrTakaMOSHi]

Thank you for using a measurement I could understand at 1:51

[@jpfeif29]

0:10 is that a challenge m8?

[@SetOfAllSets]

?

[@furrywolfjuggalo1888]

Knowing the French there gonna put up a white flag as soon as someone challenges them

[@deeganvirden2579]

BMW m8 competition you mean????

[@JosephStalin-gv2rr]

@@furrywolfjuggalo1888dead meme

[@Nothing-17sd]

Btw the cameras in subways and public transports have been in France for a while, and they were installed way before the Olympics

[@BigStrap]

The coolest thing I saw at the Games was the LA county sherrifs! They were armed of course. They were super eager to chat and talked all about how they were being trained in preparation for the 2028 Games, but they seemed to like even more to just talk about chasing drug dealers around Paris 😂 They were super popular with the Parisians too, probably because they had the classic 6-pointed sherrif's badges which are probably very novel for Europeans. And yes, the Grey zone was as intense as it sounds!

[@ZessXXify]

“Not all cops at the Paris Olympics are even people” You already said they recruited US officers, no need to tell us twice.

[@faraga1]

Some of these HAI videos really feel like they were originally meant for Wendover, but didn't have the meat for a full video. And I'm all for it.

[@JesseRoamsFree]

Sam I just gotta say, I love your editing and commentary on every video you make! Keep it up 💪🏻

[@mshuman]

I love how in every photo of the heavily armed security there's one of them on their phone.

[@KiglirsFR]

7:01 i remember one day i couldn't go to my university at all because at the convention center at the other side of the park next to my university there were president Macron giving a meeting about industries, and they had included the whole neighboor in the restricted zone, but on top of that there were a zone where no one, not even residents, were allowed, and that included the park but also my university somehow. It's insane now how there's a ton of layers of security here in France, some of those layers are just too much and uneccessary, but there to give the illusion of safety...

[@Tronmo]

2:54 That's not the Champs-Élysées, the events are held at the Place de La Concorde. Otherwise, great video!

[@JaNieWie]

This is still a piece of cake for Agent 47.

[@graceneilitz7661]

The video should have probably mentioned the 1972 Olympics as a reason why France is very big on the security.

[@riggs20]

Given the fact that there are such terrible people out there who necessitate this level of security, I don’t think running background checks for people who live and work in the area was a bad idea. Paris was chosen seven years ago, and that provides a lot of time for unsavory people to set up shop.

[@ulysse8182]

the BMX contest was at Place de la Concorde not Les Champs-Élysées 🙂

[@egpx]

Amy dodged a metaphorical bullet by not being sent to the opening ceremony. It was complete shite. Having said that, I spent five days at the games watching actual sporty stuff and felt perfectly safe most of the time.

[@mnm1273]

It was a great celebration of French culture

[@jamcdonald120]

5:05 surely "actual fist fight" is in that list

[@modelt8951]

Your reading at 1:17 is a factor of a thousand off - no way would it cost trillions of dollars to feed billions (that would mean a portion costs ~$1k). Its trillions of people, not billions (and its actually a quarter of the value you wrote, as the diameter is 80nm, not the radius). Just to nitpick

[@mx2000]

No, it is actually the radius

[@modelt8951]

@mx2000 if that is true then the no fly zone would be 160nm wide

[@mx2000]

@@modelt8951 yes, it was, google Paris exclusion zone. The visualization in the video was too small.

[@NonTwinBrothers]

Using pizzas as a mesurement of surface area AND distance. Sam you've really outdone yourself

[@diegogutierrez7149]

5:44 hahaha. He made a funny joke about how good his employee is at their job. This Amy person seems like a cool person

[@ethanf108]

The math on the big disney world pizza says it can feed over two and a half Trillion people, while mr HAI says only 2 and a half billion

[@BriManeely]

Woah.. major props for that ending segment. I like this look on you, HAI 👍

[@lanebucher]

HAI's outside correspondent Amy feels like the shadow mastermind behind all HAI and wendover videos. I don't think sam exists. Its all amy. Always has been.

[@FMUlloa]

4:28 bro. The saga watchdogs it’s based on how this sh*t was a near future dystopia that we should evite but nowadays it’s the most common thing in some countries….

[@jgr7487]

1:59 People who live in the Red Zone are pissed. I know some of them, and they aren't happy to have to show documents to commute on foot or by bike.

[@thatkyledude1093]

It's kinda cool to think that at least one of my local cops may be out there on official duties.

[@gobbel2000]

The weird red blobs being undercover cops would explain quite a lot.

[@scottporter1998]

Nothing is more permanent than a temporary government power

[@JonReevesLA]

OK, everyone's slamming Sam/Ben for saying "billion" instead of trillion, but they are missing the error farther up the calculation. For a 14 inch diameter pizza, r=7 not 12, so r² =49 not 144 (and definitely not 144²). Weirdly, though, the actual result is correct (it's identical in the ad read even though it's a different graphic). The correct lines, then, would either be: (πr²) / 4 = (π × 49) / 4 = 38.485 in² or (πr²) / 4 = (π × 7²) / 4 = 38.485 in² As for the no fly zone, I found sources that the radius is indeed 150 km, which is about 81 nautical miles, so close enough.

[@awildboop]

I work at dominos, there is DEFINITELY a coupon for that

[@hockeygrrlmuse]

>"45,000 cops" Okay well that's definitely not the safest place in the world then

[@cactus3796]

thank you HAI for raising the privacy concern

[@understAanding]

This makes me grateful my city never won its bid for the Olympics.

[@TakeWalker]

cannot get over "Monsieur Olympics" XD

[@DevinSloan]

Good video. I'm glad Amy got to do a thing.

[@OlgaRykov]

5:20 didn't expect my favortie band to be shout outed.

[@Croz89]

A lot of people are reporting that Paris is surprisingly empty at the moment, regular tourists are staying away and many of the locals have decided, probably rather wisely, to escape to the countryside for the duration of the games (though it seems like many do so this time every year). Pretty much the only people visiting are involved in or spectating the Olympics. Might the heavy security have backfired somewhat and scared people away?

[@mnm1273]

Is that backfiring though? Paris being less dense sounds like a good thing to keep the Olympics running smoothly

[@Croz89]

@@mnm1273 For the economic boost the games are supposed to give, it could be.

[@mnm1273]

@@Croz89 The idea is that it's supposed to increase tourism on the long term (people see it on TV and book flights for the future). Although frankly Paris doesn't need it. This Olympics is more of an ego thing (just look at Macron, he's at every French win)

[@Croz89]

@@mnm1273 The issue is mainly the businesses inside the city haven't got many customers. Some restaurants have decided to close for the Games as footfall has dropped off a cliff.

[@mnm1273]

@@Croz89 that seems unlikely, people coming for the games are all tourists. They'll need to eat somewhere

[@javianjohnson8746]

So with all of this heavy security in mind, it begs the question: Did anyone visiting Paris actually enjoy the tourist side of things, such as seeing the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Champs-Élysée? Basically, were the streets and shops still opening as normal despite the heavy restrictions going on during the Olympics

[@ktan8]

Maybe they should add Pickpocketing to one of the events flagged by these surveillance systems.

[@SamSitar]

we need that security for the Olympics.

[@-dennis3755]

Honstly using the pizzas for the fence put it perfectly in perspective.

[@CosmicAggressor]

I like how the lore seems to be that amy went to the olympics specificly to beat the crap out of you.

[@romulusnr]

The 8th event is "do not act against an OCP executive"

[@universalcollective427]

lol they forgot about securing the train lines, which someone put together a team to cut electricity on, and turn up line with set fires, other than that, completely secure, check

[@JenniferinIllinois]

Sounds to me like HAI's outside correspondent Amy is in fact HAI's inside correspondent. 🤣🤣🤣

[@KILLKING110]

meanwhile the Olympics turned into a violent circus that had a good dose of heat stroke

[@BichaelStevens]

Can they secure the cleanliness of the Seine or secure livable habitable logdging for the contestants?

[@sophiaisabelle027]

The Olympics is outstanding the more you think about it. Not everything is face value when it comes to safety and security. Everything had to be thought out and planned. Like a strategy that's been constructed prior to filming some of the games on hand.

[@Botejara121]

there were snipercopters in the Olympics? how the hell does someone even aim a gun while on a moving helicopter?

[@mnm1273]

With good training.

[@sanantonio855]

Helicopters can hover

[@NirateGoel]

Carefully or Badly

[@benji37]

helicopters are actually really stable, it's way easier than from a moving car or a boat

[@worldlinkk]

idk but it sounds badass

[@jblaha86]

We need Amy on a season of Jetlag

[@BlackLethalDragon]

And yet the opening ceremony still got greenlit without security to protect us all

[@DingusMingus-ug3iw]

As a Los Angeles resident this is frightening as heck. Not excited for our Olympics.

[@jesseberg3271]

Those "cop adjacents" are called gendarmeries (as i understand it, it sord of means Gentlemen at Arms). They're the reason why, in the English speaking world, we're so obsessed with the distinction between the police and the military. It's not from Germany or Russia, we got our fear of militarized police from watching the French.

[@johnwotek3816]

Yes and no. The English fear of French policing actually come from the "lieutenant de police" established under Louis XIV, which layed the foundation of centralized policing in France. This was seen as tyranical by the British. The gendarmerie, back then the maréchaussée royale, was a different organisation, that had light judging powers. Revolution made them change their name and lose their judging power, but they were so popular with the commoners that they survived being disbanded. English fear of involving the military into policing mostly come from the fact that the army was routinely used to quell riot. So it was bloody. The difference is that the French gave absolutely no fuck about firing on civilian. When Robert Peel developped policing by consent and modern British style policing, the French were at the begining of a long serie of coup and civil wars. There was no real distinction between rioter and insurrectionnist. The French gendarmerie wasn't particulary more involved than the mor civilian police forces existing in the cities. It's only by the late XIXth century the involvment of the army would become overkill in riot control. After WW1, France developped actual riot control doctrine, through the creation of the gendarmerie mobile. It was pretty much the first time someone developped such tools in Europe.

[@HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo]

Yeah those sonic dispellors or whatever burst eardrums and iirc are literally against the Geneva convention

[@niconico6391]

Thanks ! I was specially looking for an in deep plan about all the security surrounding the Paris JO. Cause I have plans I can't tell you

[@ridley3033]

I choose to believe this entire channel is just amy and an AI voice over.

[@abhishekrao1525]

0:20 We're going to need a video about Max the Dog Mayor.

[@JonReevesLA]

I'm sure it's a total coincidence that he has the same surname as Amy.