The opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics, which featured a transgender parody of the Last Supper while highlighting a controversial Muslim performer, have been branded as a national “suicide” by a former French government cabinet member.
While the Olympics were supposedly set to mark a political truce in France, which remains in limbo following President Emmanuel Macron’s snap elections that left the country without an actual government, the deeply divided country saw rage and elation — depending on political affiliation — over the opening ceremonies of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris on Saturday evening.
Dubbed the “gayest ever” games, the opening ceremony sparked condemnation for promoting paganism and openly mocking Christianity with a trans interpolation of the Last Supper of Jesus Christ.
Former French Culture Secretary Philippe de Villiers said that the opening ceremonies were a “shame,” adding: “We are committing the suicide of our country in front of the whole world.
“The Last Supper with drag queens and the beheading of Marie Antoinette add infamy to ugliness. The France of Macron and wokism is not France.”
Populist right-wing French MEP and niece of Marine Le Pen Marion Marechal similarly said: “To all the Christians of the world who are watching the Paris 2024 ceremony and felt insulted by this drag queen parody of the Last Supper, know that it is not France that is speaking but a left-wing minority ready for any provocation. Not in my name.”
La #CeremoniedOuverture des #JeuxOlympiques est une honte. Nous actons le suicide de notre pays devant le monde entier.
La Cène avec les drag-queens et la décapitation de Marie-Antoinette ajoutent l’infamie à la laideur.
La #France de #Macron et du #wokisme n’est pas la France.… pic.twitter.com/r7dh6mkEYa— Philippe de Villiers (@PhdeVilliers) July 26, 2024
Retrouvez ma tribune, “La #CeremoniedOuverture des #JeuxOlympiques ? Tout était laid, tout était #woke“, dans le @leJDD👇https://t.co/BQ2eXPcmlP
— Philippe de Villiers (@PhdeVilliers) July 27, 2024
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