French prosecutors has launched a cyberbullying probe following a grievance by Algerian Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif, who was on the heart of a gender controversy on the Paris Olympic Video games, prosecutors stated on Wednesday. The investigation was opened Tuesday into “cyberharrassment” following the high-profile gender row on the Video games, the Paris public prosecutor’s workplace advised AFP.
The athlete’s lawyer Nabil Boudi stated final week that Khelif, 25, had filed a grievance for on-line harassment, calling it a “struggle for justice.”
“The investigation will decide who was behind this misogynist, racist and sexist marketing campaign, however can even should concern itself with those that fed the net lynching,” he stated on the time.
Khelif received the ladies’s 66kg closing towards China’s Yang Liu in a unanimous factors determination, having been the main target of intense scrutiny within the French capital throughout the Olympics. Along with Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, who received the 57kg ladies’s closing, Khelif was disqualified from final yr’s world championships after they failed gender eligibility testing. Nonetheless they had been cleared to compete in Paris, setting the stage for one of many largest controversies of the Video games.
The Worldwide Boxing Affiliation’s Russian president Umar Kremlev has focused each athletes, claiming that Khelif and Lin had undergone “genetic testing that reveals that these are males.” The IBA had been chargeable for the world championships in 2023 that Lin and Khelif had been thrown out of, however the IOC cleared them to field in Paris.
Khelif stated she is “a lady like another.”
“I used to be born a lady, lived a lady and competed as a lady,” she advised reporters about her eligibility.
