“Nothing justifies threatening an artist,” says Emmanuel Macron after the cyber-harassment complaint filed by Thomas Jolly

Several participants in the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games have since been the targets of insults on social networks, targeting in particular their sexual orientation, their origins or their physique.

It is said “scandalized”. “There is no justification for threatening an artist,” hammered Emmanuel Macron on Friday August 2, after the investigation opened for cyberbullying against Thomas Jolly, the artistic director of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games.

“The French were very proud of this ceremony”assured the Head of State, on the sidelines of a trip to the Esplanade des Invalides to meet Olympic volunteers. “France has given the face of what it is (…) It has shown its audacity and then it has done so with the appropriate artistic freedom”said Emmanuel Macron.

The opening ceremony spectacle was widely applauded, but it was also criticized around the world by religious authorities and conservative politicians who saw it as an inappropriate reference to the Last Supper. Jolly has since told police: “being the target on social networks of threats and insults criticizing his sexual orientation and his wrongly supposed Israeli origins”specifies the Paris prosecutor’s office. Other participants in the opening ceremony, such as DJ Barbara Butch and drag queen presenter Nicky Doll, have also filed complaints.