PARIS (Reuters) – French DJ and producer Barbara Butch, who performed at the Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony, filed complaints against people who have harassed and threatened her since then, she said on Monday.
“(Since the ceremony) she has been threatened with death, torture, and rape, and has also been the target of numerous antisemitic, homophobic, sexist and fat-phobic insults,” her lawyer said in a statement Butch posted on her Instagram account.
Butch therefore had filed several complaints against both French nationals and people outside of France, lawyer Audrey Msellati added. The targets of the complaints were not named in the statement.
During the Olympics Opening Ceremony on Friday, Butch was part of a kitsch tableau featuring drag queens that appeared to parody Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece “The Last Supper” – one of the world’s most celebrated religious paintings.
The tableau sparked fury among the Catholic church and far-right politicians, prompting Paris 2024 organisers to apologise on Sunday to Catholics and other Christian groups.
Thomas Jolly, the artistic director behind the ceremony, said the scene had not been inspired by “The Last Supper” but instead depicted a pagan feast linked to the gods of Olympus.
(Reporting by Charlotte Van Campenhout; editing by Mark Heinrich)
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