Olympic Games ceremony censored in Morocco

The opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games was full of colour and innovation, but controversial scenes deemed provocative and blasphemous towards religion were censored by television stations in Algeria and Morocco.

Drag queens, men transformed or disguised as women, and other expressions of support for the LGBT community, a representation of the Last Supper, or the last meal of Jesus Christ in the Christian religion… Scenes performed by drag queens and Jesus Christ embodied by a DJ. France shocked Morocco and Algeria at the opening of the Paris Olympic Games. The television stations in these Maghreb countries had to censor these scenes. They are described as “outrageous and “provocative” by the French Episcopate. “We thank the members of other religious denominations who have expressed their solidarity with us,” the bishops of France said in a statement. He said he was thinking “of all Christians on all continents who have been hurt by the outrageousness and provocation of certain scenes.”