After being searched to enter the area, people on the Vieux-Port in Marseille can buy the official Paris 2024 Olympic Games pocket knife https://twitter.com/AlertesInfos/status/1788294632394133917
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Is it me or that knife isn't worth 30 euros?
Yeah it looks like it was cobbled together in some third world shithole.
It looks like an Opinel knockoff.
It is, I don't know the specifics but pretty sure the twist lock design was actually designed by Opinel (looked it up Marcel Opinel in 1955) and the company is French. The knock-off company is also based in France not sure where they make their knives but Opinel makes their knives in France the last I checked half a decade ago.
Doesn't make a lick of sense why they wouldn't want to showcase Opinel and sell those with Olympic branding.
Never owned an Opinel, not my style, if I want a sub $10 knife (now sub 20 thanks to Bidenomics) I get a Morakniv. Baffling good knife for the price. Or maybe because knives outside of the chinese tat category in general are overpriced? Don't know don't care.
I have an opined and I use it when doing work in my garden or being with me when my wife wants to go on a picnic so I can slice cheese and bread. I agree about Morakniv, I love them. Can be abused and always handles it like a champ.
I carried an Opinel when I was working IT at a bank. I would use a knife pretty regularly and pulling out a slim Opinel was a lot less "threatening" than pulling an assisted-opening Kershaw or something similar. It's actually a great little knife, through kinda bulky.
Morakniv is also a good cheap knife. I have a couple, one just for kitchen use.
They look like they would fall apart if you actually tried to stab someone with it. Maybe that is why they are allowed.