Paris Olympics organizers apologized Sunday to absolutely everyone who became angry with the aid of using a tableau that evoked Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" at some stage in the glamorous commencing rite .
Da Vinci's portray depicts the instant while Jesus Christ declared that an apostle might betray him. The scene at some stage in Friday's rite featured DJ and manufacturer Barbara Butch — an LGBTQ+ icon — flanked with the aid of using drag artists and dancers.
Religious conservatives from round the sector decried the segment, with the French Catholic Church's convention of bishops deploring "scenes of derision" that they stated made a mockery of Christianity — a sentiment echoed with the aid of using Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova. The Anglican Communion in Egypt expressed its "deep regret" Sunday, announcing the rite should motive the IOC to "lose its specific wearing identification and its humanitarian message."
The rite 's creative director Thomas Jolly had stated it became intended to have a good time range and pay tribute to feasting and French gastronomy. Paris 2024 spokesperson Anne Descamps became requested approximately the outcry at some stage in an International Olympic Committee information convention on Sunday.
"Clearly there has been by no means an purpose to reveal disrespect to any non secular group. On the contrary, I think (with) Thomas Jolly, we in reality did try and have a good time network tolerance," Descamps stated . "Looking on the end result of the polls that we shared, we consider that this ambition became achieved. If humans have taken any offense we are, of course, in reality , in reality sorry."
Jolly defined his intentions to The Associated Press after the rite .
"My want isn't to be subversive, nor to mock or to shock," Jolly stated . "Most of all, I desired to ship a message of love, a message of inclusion and under no circumstances to divide."
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