The complaint, initially filed on Friday for public defamation and revealed by “Le Monde”, targets anonymous Internet users as well as British activist and actor Laurence Fox.
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The Paris prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation into “public insults based on gender identity or sexual orientation” following the complaint filed by the drag presenter of the show “Drag Race France”, Nicky Doll, on Friday August 2. 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 is a fight that I want to lead, so that openly homophobic people are afraid to use this word ‘pedophile’, because they will be attackedNicky Doll explains to World. It’s one thing to be homophobic. On the other hand, associating us with facts as horrible as pedophilia, that has no name and it will clearly not be attached to mine.”
Nicky Doll had initially filed a complaint for “public defamation”, but “This complaint denounces remarks that could be analyzed as public insults based on gender identity or sexual orientation, in the absence of specific facts imputed”explained the prosecution. The investigation was entrusted to the Central Office for Combating Hate Crimes (OCLCH).
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.