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PARIS - Around 50 khaki-clad men riding atop a black armoured truck approached an abandoned office building on the outskirts of Paris one spring morning and blew open a second-storey window with an explosive device.
Should such an incident occur at the Games, which will be a step closer to reality on Wednesday evening when the Olympic torch arrives in Marseille, the GIGN will be summoned."It would be dishonest to say there is no risk, but it is minimized as much as possible," he said. With 300,000 people watching from the river banks and millions more tuning in on TV, the ceremony is due to take place on barges along a 6-kilometer stretch of the Seine.
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