Former Brazilian football player Zico filed a complaint with French police on Friday after having his bag stolen which contained money, watches and diamond jewellery. The 71-year-old former Flamengo striker, who played in three World Cups, was in traffic at the time of the robbery and left the car window open. The Paris daily reported that Zico’s lost assets were worth 500,000 euros ($542,000), while a source close to the matter told AFP that this amount was highly exaggerated. The national team legend is in Paris as a guest of the Brazilian Olympic team at the start of the 2024 Games this weekend.
Meanwhile, the Olympic flame arrived in Paris on Friday in a diesel-powered tugboat, with the torch held aloft by its white-clad bearer, having previously been carried by US rapper Snoop Dogg as it passed under the peripheral highway.
The 68th stage of the relay since its arrival in Marseille on May 8 was titled “Epilogue”.
The torch passed through Paris earlier, on July 14, the Bastille Day national holiday, and on July 15, before circulating through the suburbs, beginning its final journey in Saint-Denis on Friday.
Early in the morning, the flame visited the athletes’ village, where International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach and former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon took turns as torchbearers.
With phones in hand and big smiles, athletes from around the world filmed the torch.
“It’s a moment that gives you goosebumps, it’s beautiful to see,” said Judith Vandermeiren, a Belgian field hockey player.
The torch passed through Saint-Denis, where rapper MC Solaar, who is from the region, carried the flame, and stopped at the Stade de France where Snoop Dogg took his turn.
The flame traveled down the Canal Saint-Denis and was handed over to a beaming 17-year-old student from the region.
He then boarded the first in a series of canal boats, to pass past the concrete factories and housing blocks to Paris, accompanied by a crowd of spectators, security guards, employees and even costumed kayakers.
“It doesn’t happen very often. It’s exceptional,” said Nathalie, who did not give her surname, from the suburb of Aubervilliers, as she waited for the flame on a bridge.
The relay ran through the Parc de la Villette, transformed into the Parc des Nations which houses the ‘clubs’ of a number of countries, dominated by France in the Grande Halle, including Brazil in a circus tent and Mongolia in yurts.
The relay then took to the water and sailed down the Canal de l’Ourcq towards the Canal Saint-Martin and the Seine.
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