The cyberharcelers of the conductor of the opening ceremony, Thomas Jolly, fixed on their fate this Monday – Liberation

Overnight from the start of the Olympic Games from Paris 2024, the insults have shot from all sides with regard to of the artistic director of the opening ceremony. An incredible level of violence, against a background of homophobia and anti -Semitism, which pushed Thomas Jolly to file a complaint on July 31. Soon ten months later, the Paris Criminal Court is preparing to return its judgment this Monday at the trial of seven people suspected of having cyberharceled the actor and director.

Six men and a woman, aged 22 to 79, were thus tried in MarchFor « repeated death threats, cyberbullying and aggravated insults due to sexual orientation or true or supposed belonging to a religion ”. The decision had been deliberated. At the hearing, only five of the seven defendants were present, the other two being retained or sick. They then appeared as gentlemen and all-world ladies having changed in cybercrime. Thomas Jolly was also absent.

The public prosecutor had requested sentences ranging from three to eight months suspended prison sentence against the defendants as well as citizenship internships and an online access suspension for three and five months for two of them. In his requisitions, the prosecutor had denounced the feeling of impunity of people who react hot and send messages so easily to give their opinion.

Each defense lawyer insisted in his own way on the profiles « Banal » From their customers, far from professional trolls that rampically rampant. French people who allowed themselves to be carried out by the ease of communication offered by the networks.

While the creativity of the opening ceremony was greeted by many spectators, the painting entitled Festivity fueled last summer a controversy in conservative environments and extreme right. The scene, representing an attributed group, including several famous drag-Queens, was interpreted by some as a mocking parody of the last meal of Jesus with his apostles, as represented by Léonardo da Vinci.

Thomas Jolly had denied any desire to shock and explained that he wanted to represent a « Large pagan festival connected to the gods of Olympus ». The hate messages against him had not stopped and had even multiplied.