From Salvini to Fdi the controversy over drag queens on the Olympic ceremony

The opening ceremony of the Olympic Video games turns into an event for controversy for the Italian proper, which launches into the social stream to stigmatize the Paris present. “Blasphemous”, defines it the president of the Melonian senators Lucio Malan. Whereas his occasion colleague Nicholas Procaccinico-leader of ECR ​​in Brussels, tweets satirically: “I actually loved the Homosexual Delight ceremony. Are you aware when the Olympics one is scheduled?”

There have been a number of controversial scenes within the lengthy program that interspersed the parade of athletes aboard boats on the Seine. However the one which brought about probably the most outcry was the parody of the Final Supper with the drag queens posing. A passage that additionally provoked a response from the French bishops. And to experience the controversy, it instantly arrived in Italy Matthew Salvini. The chief of the Northern League confirmed his indignation on social media, reposting the juxtaposed photographs of yesterday’s DJ set and Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece: “Opening the Olympics by insulting billions of Christians on the earth was a extremely dangerous begin, expensive French. Squalids,” Salvini wrote, commenting on the comparability.

Much more unleashed is Malan, who publishes a whole sequence of tweets: “Paris ’24: that ceremony that shames France and Europe”, writes on Twitter the senator FdI Lucio Malan. And once more: “What was the golden calf, emblem of idolatry and blasphemous disobedience, doing on the #Paris2024 ceremony? In actuality it was according to every part else. The Olympics have been only a pretext, a lot in order that the athletes have been marginalized. On the heart there was one thing else”. Then an assault additionally on the group, for the scene of the heads of state within the rain: “Shameful remedy at Sergio Mattarella on the horrendous opening ceremony of the Olympics: within the rain, sheltered solely by a plastic poncho whereas the 46-year-old Macron it was properly sheltered. Speak about hospitality!”, reads one other put up by Malan.