The designer of the emblem of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games attacks the Organizing Committee (COJOP). Sylvain Boyer filed a complaint against COJOP and a communications agency for favoritism, illegal taking of interests, counterfeiting and receiving stolen goods, as Le Monde revealed this Wednesday.
The complaint is currently being analyzed by the National Financial Prosecutor's Office. In 2019, Sylvain Boyer won a contract dedicated to the design of the Olympic emblem. This represents the flame, with a face of Marianne. The designer believes he was fraudulently sidelined in favor of the W Coran agency, under the pretext of a new, expanded market.
The Organizing Committee refutes
According to him, his contribution to the visual identity of the emblem has not been highlighted enough by the COJOP. The latter's lawyer, Julien Guinot-Delery, indicated that he “refutes all of the manifestly unjustified grievances formulated by Sylvain Boyer and his company Royalties and is surprised by the timing of their formulation, a few months before the Olympics then that they relate to facts which are now four years old”.
Gilles Deléris and Denis Gancel, co-founders of W Conran, also reacted: “We responded to successive, perfectly supervised calls for tenders, without ever knowing who we were competing against. All of this was the subject of stages that we took according to established rules. »
They also described Sylvain Boyer's complaint as a “blackmail strategy, motivated by unacceptable financial maneuvers”.
COJOP is currently the subject of four separate financial investigations, relating in particular to its remuneration or to suspicions of favoritism during the award of contracts.