Right-wingers cry foul at Paris Olympics poster
Paris (AFP) – French conservatives and far-right figures fumed Tuesday at the official poster for this summer’s Paris Olympics, complaining a Christian cross and French tricolor flags were missing.
Issued on: 05/03/2024 – 15:01Modified: 03/05/2024 – 17:06
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Those responsible for the image were “ready to deny France, going so far as to distort reality to cancel its history,” Francois-Xavier Bellamy of the right-wing Republicans party wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Top of the list of complaints about the fantastical Parisian panorama is a cross which in real life tops the Dome des Invalides, part of a historic military…