Games Opening Director Reboul: We are sorry if we offended, but we do not make excuses
Thierry Reboul, director of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, made a statement after criticism of the event. He is quoted by RMC Sport.
“We said we were sorry if we had offended anyone. But we are not making excuses as if we had made a mistake. It was impossible to make a mistake,” Reboul said. According to him, 87 percent of the French liked the opening ceremony.
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Reboul added that the program was not coordinated with French President Emmanuel Macron. “We wanted to tell what France is: freedom, equality, fraternity. Freedom includes freedom of creativity. There was no desire to shock,” he emphasized.
The opening ceremony of the Olympics took place in Paris on July 26. For the first time, the event was held not in a stadium, but in the city, including on the Seine, along which ships with artists and delegations of countries sailed.
The ceremony was met with controversy in the public eye. In the Olympic homeland of Greece, it was called the collapse of civilization because transvestites were portraying the Last Supper.
Source: Lenta
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