“Russian Hybrid War on the Khelif Case”. And Another Case Breaks Out in the Paris Ring

“A good male boxer, a person who has made the transition.” He was missing, and he arrived the other night: Donald Trump intervened directly on the history of the Algerian Imane Khelif and his victory against the Italian Angela Carini. He did this by relaunching the fake news of the transition to confirm that, by now, the Khelif affair is just electoral propaganda material. It is in the United States. It is in Hungary where, after the defeat of the boxer Hamor always by the hand of Khelif, the Orbanian right has relaunched the theme. And it is evidently also in Italy. Where yesterday the minister for the family, Eugenia Roccelladefended the campaign against Khelif. «The Italian left and its media outlets — he said — are bringing out the Russian conspiracy hatched in collusion with a “fascist sphere”. The truth is that the king is naked».

The Iba case and the Copasir

In reality, while Roccella was talking about “laughable conspiracies” something was happening. And something else could be exposed. After the investigation of Republic on the Russian president of the IBA, Umar Kremlev — a criminal who changed his name before he could take over from his friend Vladimir Putin of gaming companies, and then climb the boxing federation kicked out by the IOC — in Italy there are those who have moved to understand what kind of relations there are between Kremlev and Italy. Relations of a political and also economic nature, after the Iba he chairs offered a rich prize (refused) to Carini and the Italian federation. The case could in fact end up at the Copasir where for days something had already been moving on the subject of Russian hybrid warfare regarding the Olympics. «Russia — said the senator of Italia Viva, Henry Borghia member of Copasir — is implementing actions that are textbook examples of hybrid warfare: proof of this is a forced and interested reading of some passages of the opening ceremony, and the explosion of controversy against the Algerian athlete. Around this initiative — continues Borghi — an alliance between the European far right and Russia is manifesting itself, which social networks like X then amplify to extraordinary levels, given that the same Musk is at the forefront of re-sharing these contents. And here a key step is made: Italy is the country that at an institutional level is lining up with an unusual weight (the second highest office of the State, the prime minister, a vice-premier in addition to the media battery of government parties) on this side”. Borghi speaks not by chance of an opening ceremony: the investigation by the Paris prosecutor’s office into the death threats to the artistic director has ascertained, in this initial phase, that it was an organized flow. And that this flow is possible to come from abroad. “What is certain” said yesterday the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schleinis that in «these days we have seen an axis of the nationalist right, an axis between Trump, Putin’s supporters, Salvini e Melons to attack a female athlete because they want to decide that she is not a woman.”

Unreliable tests

By the way: yesterday the IOC had to return to the subject because Iba, as he said yesterday Republichad made public the tests according to which Khelif and the Taiwanese Lin Yu Ting would have the Y chromosome, the male one. (Yesterday, getting off the ring, the Bulgarian Svetlana Kamenova Stanevaafter losing 5-0 to Lin, made the X sign with her hands, to claim that she has female chromosomes). “It is – said the spokesperson for the International Olympic Committee Mark Adams — of unreliable tests, carried out using an unlawful procedure. It is not right that two athletes are targeted like this: no one wants to go back to the days when genital tests were done.”