(4 Jul 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris – 3 July 2025
1. Wide of tourists enjoying a boat ride on the Seine River
2. Wide of Seine River with Notre-Dame Cathedral in the background
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Clea Montanari, project manager:
++STARTS ON SHOT 2, PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 4 – 7++
"I’m very excited to go swim in the Seine. I think it’s a beautiful, it’s an opportunity. I mean it’s a dream come true to be able to swim in the river in the city. If you go to a city like Zurich in Switzerland, they have this beautiful lake and you can swim at any point in time, anywhere you’d like and I find it amazing. It’d be a dream if while the Seine (River) became drinkable, that would be the ultimate goal, right? But already swimming in it is really good."
4. Wide of tourist boats navigating the Seine River
5. Wide of area called "Bras Marie" along the Seine River, one of three sites to be opened to public swimming
6. Various of debris floating in the Seine River adjacent to zone where the public swimming is expected to be launched
7. Various of "Bras Marie" along the Seine River
8. Wide of the Seine River
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris – 19 June 2025
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Pierre Rabadan, Paris Deputy Mayor for Sports:
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"We have instant sensors and daily scientific readings. When the readings and sensors are favorable, below the regulatory standard, swimming areas can be opened. And when this is not the case, they will be closed until the water quality improves. This is exactly the same principle as on all French beaches. You will have a flag; when it is green, it means you can swim, and when it is red, you cannot swim."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris – 3 July 2025
10. Mid of the Seine River
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris – 19 June 2025
11. Mid of preparations along the Seine River in Paris for public swimming at "Bras Marie"
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris – 19 June 2025
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dan Angelescu, Fluidion founder and CEO:
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"What we see is that the water quality in the Seine is highly variable and it is, there are only a few days in a swimming season where I would say water quality is acceptable for swimming, according to the regulations currently in place."
13. Various of Fluidion microbiologist, Emilie Valana, collecting water samples from the Seine River to test for E.coli
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris – 19 June 2025
14. Wide of Seine River with Eiffel Tower in the background at another of the forthcoming Seine swimming sites due to open
STORYLINE:
Public swimming in Paris’ Seine River is due to make a comeback over a century after it was banned with just a few exceptions.
Three new swimming sites on the Paris riverbank are scheduled to open on Saturday July 5th.
They include one close to Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral, another near the Eiffel Tower and a third in eastern Paris.
The project was one the most ambitious legacies of the Olympic Games in the French capital and it has come at the hefty cost of some $1.5 billion to clean up the river.
Clea Montanari, who lives in Paris, says she is more than ready to take the plunge.
"It’s a dream come true to be able to swim in the river in the city. If you go to a city like Zurich in Switzerland, they have this beautiful lake and you can swim at any point in time anywhere you’d like and I find it amazing,” she said.
The sites will be closely supervised by lifeguards keeping a watchful eye on people’s first dip.
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