The Organizing Committee for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will rule in early January on the possible removal of one of its ambassadors, Emilie Gomis, after an Instagram publication about Israel, Cojo president Tony Estanguet said on Wednesday.
“I am going to convene a general meeting in the board of directors according to our statutes which will be able to discuss this situation at the very beginning of 2024,” declared Tony Estanguet during an end-of-year press conference at the headquarters of the Cojo. “The ethics committee stipulated that these posts were not in accordance with the values defended by Paris 2024 and suggested the removal of Emilie Gomis as an administrator,” he added.
Two days after the attacks perpetrated by Hamas in Israel on October 7, former basketball player Emilie Gomis briefly published a message in which we saw maps of France from 1947, 1967 and 2023, on which the tricolor flag covering the territory French was gradually replaced by the Israeli flag, with the question: “What would you do in this situation?”
A publication which “clearly refers to events concerning the State of Israel and Palestine, in particular the Gaza Strip, notably the plan for the partition of Palestine by the United Nations in 1947, the War of the Six days and the vote on Resolution 242 of the United Nations Security Council in 1967,” estimated the Ethics Committee last week.
“In our statutes, it is clearly indicated that the representatives of Paris 2024 must have exemplary behavior and with a desire for appeasement with regard to these subjects,” underlined Tony Estanguet. Emilie Gomis admitted “clumsiness” but made it known that she did not intend to “resign”. His lawyers William Bourdon and Vincent Brengarth said they had already been mandated “to take any action against a possible sanction that would be taken against him”
