PARIS - The Olympic flame will pass by the site of the 2015 Islamist attack on the Bataclan concert hall as well as the Shoah Memorial as it makes its way through Paris in July ahead of the 2024 summer Games, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Tuesday.

"This torch is a message of peace, a message of friendship between peoples, which is all the stronger at a time when the world is in such bad shape," Hidalgo told France 2 TV.