Paris Olympics organisers apologise for opening ceremonys unintentional Last Supper parody

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00:00Clearly, there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group.

00:08On the contrary, I think that Thomas Joly really tried to

00:12intend to celebrate community tolerance. That was his word yesterday. And looking at the result

00:19of the polls that we shared, we believe that this ambition was achieved. If people have taken

00:27any offense, we are, of course, really, really sorry.

00:57In France, we have the right to love each other as we want, with whoever we want.

01:04In France, we have the right to believe or not to believe. In France, we have the right,

01:08we have a lot of rights. And it was the idea of transposing these values through the ceremony.