The rise of the 'un-volunteer': How French protesters are planning to disrupt the Paris Olympics

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The rise of the 'un-volunteer': How French protesters are planning to disrupt the Paris Olympics
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With 45,000 volunteer positions available for the Paris Olympics, political protesters are putting their hands up in an attempt to cause chaos and confusion.

abc.net.au/news/french-protesters-plan-to-disrupt-paris-olympics-volunteering/102301214Retired and with time to kill, Bernard Gauvain wants to be a volunteer at the 2024 Olympics — but a bad one.

— the anti-Olympic Trojan horses are working to infiltrate and then disrupt next year's Paris Games by signing up as volunteers, posing as willing-to-help super fans when they're anything but. Efforts by Mr Macron's opponents to link protests to Olympic preparations that have otherwise been largely smooth and low key raise the possibility that the Games themselves will be whacked by demonstrations and strikes if fury pushes into 2024 unabated.So far, protests targeting Olympic preparations have been small and sporadic.

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