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Organizers of Olympics Opening Ceremony File Complaint After Receiving Death Threats; French Police Launches Investigation
Thomas Jolly, the artistic director of the Olympics’ opening ceremony, has filed a police complaint alleging death threats and harassment.
French President Emmanuel Macron has spoken out in support of Thomas Jolly, the artistic director of the Olympics ’ opening ceremony, who has faced vitriolic criticism from conservatives and has filed a police complaint alleging death threats and cyber harassment. While the opening ceremony has been widely praised for its originality and innovation — and is the first in modern history to be hosted outdoors — it has also been the subject of backlash from the Catholic Church as well as from prominent conservative figures like Rob Schneider and Candace Cameron Bure, who objected to a scene which seemed to riff on Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting “The Last Supper.” Reacting to the controversy over the apparent parody of “The Last Supper,” Jolly said the scene which unleashed a torrent of hate speech was meant to raise awareness “of the absurdity of violence between human beings,” and denied he had been inspired by the Da Vinci’s religious painting.
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