Opening ceremony choreographer Maud Le Pladec also files a complaint for cyberbullying

Maud Le Pladec’s complaint was added to the investigation opened for death threats, following the complaint filed on Saturday by the organizers of the opening ceremony, the Paris prosecutor’s office said.

The dance director for the ceremonies of the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, Maud Le Pladec, has filed in turn a complaint for cyberbullying, the choreographer and the Paris prosecutor’s office announced on Thursday, August 8. It is in addition to the open investigation after the complaint for death threats filed on Saturday by the organizers of the opening ceremony, the Paris prosecutor’s office said.

Alexandre Billard, deputy general manager of the event agency Ubi Bene, Thomas Jolly, artistic director of the opening ceremony, and Thierry Reboul, executive director of the ceremonies of the Olympic and Paralympic Games had filed a complaint after receiving death threats. The choreographer of the opening ceremony was “victim of the same cyberbullying”the prosecution said.

Maud Le Pladec explained to AFP that she had “received several dozen threatening emails and hateful messages.” “As a director and choreographer, we have presented a vision of the world. I assume full artistic responsibility (…). We have not targeted anyone, we have not created this controversy.”she said.

The investigation, initially entrusted to the Brigade for the Repression of Crimes against the Person, is now in the hands of the Central Office for the Fight against Crimes against Humanity and Hate Crimes, the prosecutor’s office said. Investigations were opened following complaints of death threats and cyber-harassment from artistic director Thomas Jolly and French DJ Barbara Butch, a feminist and lesbian activist.

Drag queen Nicky Doll has filed a complaint against former British actor turned politician Laurence Fox. On his Twitter account, he compared the drag queen artists taking part in the ceremony’s “Festivity” scene to “child fuckers” or to “little deviant pedophiles“. An investigation was opened on Friday for public insults.