パリ五輪公式ポスター、保守・右派から「ウォーキズム」と批判

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】４日に発表されたパリ五輪・パラリンピックの公式ポスターに対して、「ウォーキズム（社会問題に高い意識を持つよう呼び掛ける主張）」だとして、保守派や極右派の政治家が不満を示している。（写真は２０２４年パリ五輪・パラリンピックの公式ポスター）
　今回発表された五輪ポスターは、イラストレーターのウーゴ・ガットーニ氏がパリ市街をアニメ風に描いたもので、エッフェル塔をはじめとする主要な名所だけでなく、五輪・パラリンピックが行われる５４会場などが細かく描き込まれている。
　しかし一部の政治家は、十字架やフランス国旗がないことに憤慨。特に、市中央にある歴史的建造物で、ナポレオン・ボナパルトも埋葬されているアンヴァリッド廃兵院の上に十字架がないことが不満の種となっている。
　保守系野党・共和党のフランソワグザビエ・ベラミー氏は、自身のＸ（旧ツイッター）に、制作者は「フランスを否定し、現実をゆがめて歴史をなかったことにしようとさえしている」と投稿。極右政党・国民連合（ＲＮ）のニコラ・メゾネ氏は、十字架を描かなかったのは極右が問題視する「ウォーキズム」によるものだとつづった。
　これに対して、文化論争に巻き込まれたガットーニ氏は、「頭に浮かんだ姿の」建物を描いただけで、隠れた意図があったわけではないと話し、「オリジナルを正確に写し取ることが狙いではなく、パッと見たときの分かりやすさ、シュールレアリスム的なお祭りムードの世界に建物を配置することを目指した」と述べた。
　パリ五輪組織委員会も、ポスターは「生まれ変わったスタジアムシティーを楽しく解釈したもの」で、フランス国旗を描く義務はないと主張。サーフィンの波は「マルセイユ沖のもの、エッフェル塔はピンクで、メトロ（地下鉄）は凱旋（がいせん）門の間を通っているが、いずれも政治的な意図で解釈したものではない」としている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/03/06-17:19）

French conservatives and far-right figures fumed Tuesday at the official poster for this summer's Paris Olympics, complaining that a Christian cross and the French flag were missing due to wokism.
Those responsible for the image were ready to deny France, going so far as to distort reality to cancel its history, Francois-Xavier Bellamy of the right-wing Republicans party wrote on X.
Top of the list of complaints about the poster, which depicts a stylised panorama of Paris, is the absence of the cross that sits atop the Dome des Invalides, the historic military complex in central Paris where Napoleon is buried.
What is the point of holding the Olympic Games in France if we then hide who we are? Marion Marechal of the far-right Reconquete (Reconquest) party posted on X.
National Rally (RN) lawmaker Nicolas Meizonnet wrote that the omissions must be the result of wokism -- a bugbear of France's far right.
Artist Ugo Gattoni's design, unveiled on Monday, features a cartoonish Paris cityscape with major landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower and a wealth of tiny details, including all 54 Olympic and Paralympic sports.
In reaction to being pulled into France's culture wars, Gattoni said he had rendered buildings in the way they come to my mind, without any ulterior motive.
I am not aiming to make them accurate to the originals but rather to make them recognisable at a glance, placing them within a surrealist and celebratory universe, he added in a statement sent to AFP by the organising committee.
The committee said that the posters were a light-hearted interpretation of a reinvented stadium-city, adding that there was no obligation to include the French flag.
A surfing wave is seen offshore of the Marseille Marina; the Eiffel Tower is pink; the Metro is passing through the Arc de Triomphe ?- none of which should be the object of politically motivated interpretations, it added.
The colours of the French flag -- blue, white and red -- are present in the mascots? rosettes, it added, and other national symbols such as Marianne are also visible.
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The Paris Olympics are set to take place from July 26-August 11, followed by the Paralympics from August 28-September 8.
With every decision scrutinised and discussed on social media, organisers have faced criticism before over their choices for the Games' aesthetics and merchandise in the past.
Last year, critics pounced on the fact that the official mascots for Paris 2024 were mostly being made in China, while others suggested the cuddly red triangles resembled a clitoris.
The official logo, featuring a flame, was compared to the one used by the far-right National Rally party of Marine Le Pen when it was unveiled in 2019.
Elsewhere on Tuesday, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said that a total of 326,000 tickets were set to be sold or given away for the opening ceremony on the river Seine, giving the exact number for the first time.
Organisers have scaled back their plans for the water-borne open-air parade -- with crowds once imagined as large as two million people -- in the face of resistance from French security services and worries about terror attacks.
But it is still set to break records in terms of size, with all previous Olympic opening ceremonies taking place in the main athletics' stadium.
We will have 104,000 spectators on the lower bank who have paid for a ticket, Darmanin told a hearing in the Senate. Then you have 222,000 people on the higher banks (with free tickets).
He estimated an additional 200,000 people would watch the parade on July 26 along the river from buildings that overlook the Seine, with 50,000 more in fanzones in the capital.
The boat parade is in keeping with promises to make the Paris Olympics iconic, with the organising committee keen to break from past traditions in the way it stages the world's biggest sporting event.
The 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics ceremony is generally considered to be the most spectacular in history, while the 2012 London ceremony, overseen by Trainspotting director Danny Boyle, won rave reviews for showcasing Britain's quirky side.