Émilie Gomis continues to defend herself.
Ousted from the Athletes' Commission of the French Olympic Committee and then from her role as ambassador for the Paris 2024 Games following controversial messages posted on her social networks on October 9, two days after the deadly Hamas attacks in Israel, the The former basketball player is now waiting to be heard by French justice.
But in the meantime, she continues to defend herself.
On 'it is believed.
» She accompanied this sentence with the key words: “conscience”, “confidence” and “dignity”.
The 40-year-old Olympic medalist 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 in this…situation?
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“To make enemies, there’s no need to declare war, you just have to say what you think.”
#awareness #trust #dignity #value #martinlutherking pic.twitter.com/lHLDKCg276
— Emilie Gomis (@emiliegomis) February 4, 2024
Despite the rapid deletion of the publication, this message created an outcry, and caused his ouster from the athletes' commission of the French Olympic committee.
Now summoned for a free hearing by the Paris judicial police, seized in mid-December by the national center for the fight against online hatred for advocating terrorism, Émilie Gomis had shared with Cojo “her regrets concerning its publication”.
“This summons is truly astonishing and totally fanciful,” his lawyers denounced.
Ms. Gomis explained at length, and several times, about a mistake, without the beginning of the beginning of a criminal offense.
» The hearing is scheduled to take place this week.