Ousted from the athletes' commission of the French Olympic committee and then from her role as ambassador for the Paris 2024 Games (she resigned), Émilie Gomis now has a meeting with the French justice system.
According to L'Équipe, this Friday, the former French basketball player is summoned for a free hearing next week by the Paris judicial police, seized in mid-December by the national center for the fight against online hatred for advocating terrorism.
This summons follows a complaint filed by the national office for vigilance against anti-Semitism (BNVCA).
At issue: controversial messages posted on his social networks on October 9, two days after the deadly Hamas attacks in Israel.
The 40-year-old Olympic medalist (silver in London in 2012) had published a message in which we saw maps of France from 1947, 1967 and 2023, on which the tricolor flag covering French territory is gradually replaced by the Israeli flag , with this question: “What would you do in this… situation?”
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If the publication was quickly deleted by Émilie Gomis, it resurfaced on social networks via screenshots.
A “properly astonishing and totally fanciful” summons
“This summons is truly astonishing and totally fanciful.
Ms. Gomis explained at length, and several times, about a mistake, without the beginning of the beginning of a criminal offense” denounced her lawyers, Me Vincent Brengarth and William Bourdon.
“What more is needed?
She faces real relentlessness which not only cannot be explained but which more generally harms the cause of the fight against racism and anti-Semitism,” add the two councils.
“We can also be surprised at the means suddenly found to unnecessarily hear Ms. Gomis when justice is sorely lacking,” they further criticize.
Émilie Gomis left her position as ambassador for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on January 10 after criticism linked to this publication.
“The members of the board of directors (Cojo) and the general assembly”, who had heard Émilie Gomis and her lawyers on January 10, had “noted that Emilie Gomis condemned the attacks of October 7 in Israel, any form of anti-Semitism or discrimination, contrary to its values.
» Émilie Gomis had “also shared her regrets regarding its publication and presented her apologies”, indicated Cojo.