{"id":132522,"date":"2024-07-22T07:45:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T04:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/russians-belarussians-suspected-of-foreign-interference-barred-from-paris-games\/"},"modified":"2024-07-22T07:45:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T04:45:51","slug":"russians-belarussians-suspected-of-foreign-interference-barred-from-paris-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/russians-belarussians-suspected-of-foreign-interference-barred-from-paris-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Russians, Belarussians suspected of foreign interference barred from Paris Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132522\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nAmong thousands of applications, a few dozen were rejected on suspicion of foreign interference, French Interior Minister Darmanin says. As cybersecurity, disinformation and terror-related threats weigh on the Paris Olympics, the French government has set up a verification system for all individuals seeking to take part in the event or access restricted zones.<\/p>\n<p>A little under one million background checks have been completed so far, French Interior Minister G\u00e9rald Darmanin said in an interview with Le JDD. Thousands of applications \u2014 required for a broad range of individuals including athletes, volunteers and recruited personnel \u2014 were rejected, including Russian and Belarussian citizens suspected of acting as foreign agents, according to Darmanin.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 4,340 rejected applications, fewer than a hundred were related to alleged attempts of foreign interference, said Darmanin, who listed Russia and Belarus among the suspected sponsors of these suspected attempts. \u201cIn addition to intelligence and traditional espionage, there\u2019s the possibility of gaining access to computer network gateways to carry out a cyber attack,\u201d Darmanin said. \u201cFor example, we have turned away large numbers of \u2018journalists\u2019 claiming to be covering the Games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Belarusian and Russian athletes will be allowed to compete in the Paris 2024 Games on the condition of competing as Individual Neutral Athletes and not under their country\u2019s colors and only after having undergone a vetting process to ensure that they do not support the invasion of Ukraine or have ties with the military. The International Olympic Committee has come under scrutiny after it was reported that one of its two Russian members held the rank of major in the Russian army.<\/p>\n<p>The Paris Games will kick off Friday with a boat show along the River Seine in the heart of the French capital, the first-ever open-air opening ceremony. While fears of a security incident on opening day have been reported on since the start of the organization process, Darmanin reaffirmed that there was \u201cno clear threat\u201d with less than a week to go.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/french-official-russians-belarussians-suspected-foreign-interference-were-barred-access-from-paris-games-gerald-darmanin\/\">Politico<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/russians-belarussians-suspected-of-foreign-interference-barred-from-paris-games\/\">Russians, Belarussians suspected of foreign interference barred from Paris Games<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[15370,555,13209],"class_list":["post-132522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-belarussians-paris-games","tag-csr-news-en","tag-russians"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}