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The call of intellectuals: "We must boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics!"

2021-12-08T17:54:09.646Z


EXCLUSIVE - In a collective forum at Le Figaro, more than twenty-five academics and writers, including Marie Holzman, Pascal Bruckner and Nathalie Heinich, ask the French authorities that our athletes do not participate in what they qualify as an "operation of smoke of a State ...


From February 4 to 20, the Chinese totalitarian regime is to organize the Winter Olympics on artificial snow in Beijing. The members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), obviously indifferent to climate change and the disastrous carbon footprint of one of the most polluted cities in the world, had decided the allocation in a parody of the vote in July 2015. At the same time, the Chinese security apparatus launched operation "7.09" and rounded up several hundred lawyers specializing in the defense of human rights and civil rights. The message was clear and Thomas Bach, the opportunist German president of the IOC, could not but hear it: the hunt for “ideological deviants” would henceforth be organized by “president for life” Xi Jinping.The neo-Maoist "Grand Helmsman" was in fact to accentuate the placing of the population under control through generalized panoptic surveillance and nationalist brainwashing.

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Source: lefigaro

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