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Duty-hardened French troops face new challenge: keeping Paris Olympics safe


Duty-hardened French troops face new challenge: keeping Paris Olympics safe
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Only days into the Paris Olympics, France has already weathered attacks on its rail and internet service. But it’s also mounted a massive security umbrella that includes tens of thousands of police, gendarmes — and soldiers. Many troops now patrolling the streets of the French capital have done duty in foreign countries, as Lisa Bryant reports from Paris.

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