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Almost 400 thousand spectators along the Seine, 22 million in France and 2 billion around the world in front of the television: the opening ceremony of the Paris Games has been unique in history, as it was promised. Because it was the first organized not in a stadium and because it touched and excited many people. But it has also irritated and scandalized many others. Never before had such an event so divided world opinion.
In France, the general atmosphere was one of excitement and satisfaction, because despite various difficulties - from train sabotage to rain - and various prophecies, everything went well until the end and according to plans, without terrorist attacks and without significant incidents . The grand finale of the Eiffel Tower with the Olympic rings and Celine Dion, who after years of silence due to illness, almost angrily sang Edith Piaf's Hymn to Love, were moments that united the country, the desire for greatness as if completed.
But in the beginning there were less consensual scenes to say the least. The Franco-Malian singer Aya Nakamura, with the mixture of her sung successes with a street French typical of the banlieue slums, right in front of the French Academy founded by Richelieu to protect the correctness of the language; Marie Antoinette with her severed head singing the anthem of the revolution, holding her head in her hands and accompanied by heavy metal music in the background; and above all the drag queen parade and what seemed to many a recreation of Leonardo's Last Supper, with Philippe Katerine half-naked and painted blue in the Dionis version: all these exalted many, but on the other hand, outraged many others, above all on the right.
The leaders of Jean-Luc Melencon's France Insoumise, who until a few days ago were protesting against the waste of money and energy for the "Olympics of the rich", have spoken about "the pride of France when it knows how to speak to the world", while that on the extreme right, MEP Marion Marechal has addressed the Christians of the whole world: "Know that it is not France that is speaking, but a left-wing minority ready for any kind of provocation".
Even the conference of bishops criticized the "mockery of Christianity", although it admitted that the ceremony also offered "wonderful moments".
Even in the world, more or less the same division: if the British Labor Prime Minister Keir Starmer declared that he adored the ceremony, as "a triumph, compliments of France", the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban spoke of the "weakness and decline of the West" and the spokeswoman of the Russian diplomacy , Maria Zakharova criticized the LGBT parody of The Last Supper. /Corriere della Sera – Bota.al
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