Macron said: “The French are proud of the opening ceremony.” [افتتاح الألعاب الأولمبية]“We are very proud of it. I think France has shown its true face. It has shown its courage and it has done so with its inherent artistic freedom,” he said, condemning the criticism and threats to which “the artists and the artistic director of the event, Thomas Joly, have been subjected.”
“Macron said of the scandalous opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics that it ‘showed the true face of France’,” Zakharova said. “Many thought it was something else, other parts of the body, but since Macron insists that France now has such a face, he knows best.”
Social media users widely circulated footage from the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony, criticizing its content.
“The ceremony showed the West’s lack of ideas about culture and public morality,” said Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said “very disgusting moments” took place at the ceremony, and expressed regret that the International Olympic Committee had approved such content.
Christian religious groups and conservative politicians from various countries have criticized a segment at the Olympic opening ceremony that depicted a vulgar parody of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting “The Last Supper”, which depicts the “secret supper” of Jesus Christ and his apostles.
The organizers of the Paris 2024 Olympics apologized to Catholics and other Christian denominations who were offended by the scene, saying there was no intention to show disrespect to any religious group, but rather to celebrate the idea of tolerance for others.
Source: RT
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2024-08-04 08:57:00
