Paris 2024 Olympic Games: “Why did you erase the cross ? Why no French flag ?” The rights rebel against the official poster of the Games

A peine dévoilée, l'affiche officielle des JO fait polémique.

Affiche des JO : pas de croix ni de drapeau, les droites crient au scandale. 

Several right-wing and far-right leaders questioned on Tuesday the official poster for the Olympic Games unveiled the day before, which does not feature any tricolor flag or Christian cross on the dome of the Invalides.

More political than artistic, the criticism quickly poured out on the social network at the Europeans, Marion Maréchal, pretended to wonder: "Why did you erase the cross at the top of the dome of the Invalides ? Why no French flag ? What interest in organizing the Olympic Games in France if it is to hide what we are ?"

They accuse the poster of distorting the history of France

His competitor at Les Républicains, François-Xavier Bellamy, more directly denounced those who "are ready to deny France to the point of distorting reality to cancel his story", focusing on the cross which "constitutes the deep meaning" of Les Invalides .

France dishonors itself by denying its history and culture

This dome "is not that of a supermarket but'of a chapel", added the president of his party, Eric Ciotti, for whom the poster "denies the very identity of this building as well as the& #39;French history". The work of the illustrator Ugo Gattoni is "scandalous", said the sovereignist Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, judging that "France dishonors itself by denying its history and its culture".

On the side of the National Rally, several deputies reacted in the same tone, like their spokesperson Thomas Ménage deploring "a sadly ridiculous example of the great erasure of the France" or Nicolas Meizonnet castigating "wokism (which) must be fought relentlessly everywhere".