Drag queen presenter Nicky Doll files defamation lawsuit over hateful messages

The complaint, filed on Friday and revealed by “Le Monde”, targets anonymous Internet users as well as the British activist and actor Laurence Fox.

The drag presenter of the show “Drag Race France”, Nicky Doll, filed a complaint on Friday August 2 for defamation, her lawyer Anne-Sophie Laguens announced to franceinfo, confirming information revealed by the newspaper. The world.

The complaint targets anonymous Internet users, as well as British activist and actor Laurence Fox. The latter, in a message posted on X on July 26, accuses of pedophilia the LGBTQIA+ artists participating in the painting entitled “Festivities” of the opening ceremony of the Paris Games, at the heart of a controversy.

This complaint comes as an investigation has also been opened for cyberbullying of Thomas Jolly, the artistic director of the opening ceremony, franceinfo learned from the Paris prosecutor’s office on Friday. Thomas Jolly filed a complaint on Tuesday, July 30, with the brigade for the repression of crimes against persons, “for death threats because of his origin, death threats because of his sexual orientation and defamation,” according to the Paris prosecutor’s office, confirming information from AFP.

DJ Barbara Butch, who performed at the opening ceremony during the same act, also received numerous insulting messages on social media and also decided to file a complaint for aggravated cyberbullying and death threats on Monday, July 29.