The Paris prosecutor’s office indicated on Wednesday that it had opened an investigation based on Complaint filed by Algerian boxer Imane Khelief for harassment Regarding the controversy over her participation in the women’s events at the Paris Olympic Games.
The process aims to determine what happened Caliph corresponds to gender-motivated cyberbullying crimes, Public insults based on gender, public incitement to discrimination and public humiliation because of their origin, the Paris prosecutor’s office told EFE. The investigations were entrusted to the Central Office for the Fight against Humanity and Hate Crimes (OCLCH) of the French Gendarmerie.
Boxer’s lawyer Nabil Boudi explained the target Complaint to find out who started “misogynist, racist and sexist campaign”. against his client, but “who fueled this digital lynching.” For the lawyer, “The unjust harassment suffered by the boxing champion continues to be the biggest stain on these Olympic Games.”
The unfair harassment suffered by the boxing champion continues to be the biggest stain on these Olympic Games
The 25-year-old Khalif won the women’s under-66kg final last Friday. The International Boxing Association (IBA) has been at the center of controversy over the suspension he received from last year’s World Cup. After she was subjected to a femininity test — the details of which were not disclosed — she failed.
The IBA is in open conflict with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which rejects it and does not recognize it as an international boxing federation. Although the IOC allowed Khalif to participate in the Paris Olympic Games, the controversy over his case was strongly reopened when he won his first fight at the Paris Olympic Games. The untimely retirement of Italian Angela Carini, The move received public support from Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who said the clash was not on equal terms.
The controversy, fueled in particular by far-right political figures, some of whom described the Algerian boxer as transgender without evidence, paralleled a wave of transphobia advertising online.
