It is time for the American presidential campaign to end because in the final hours, on Trump's side, anything goes. After estimating that it would not bother him if journalists were shot during his meeting, the Republican candidate went even further in the escalation.
In one of his latest campaign clips published on X, the former President of the United States has once again attacked the Algerian boxer, gold medalist at the Paris 2024 Olympics and licensed in Nice, Imane Khelif.
In this one-minute video, the candidate urges his supporters to go into battle: “When we are knocked out, we don’t stay down, we get up. Fight”he wrote on his X account to accompany this video.
In it, a man's voice assures that the United States took “the wrong turn” by electing Joe Biden. Then comes a list of the different things that have evolved in the wrong direction, according to Trump. And among these “things”, images of Imane Khelif appear, in the ring of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, when she wins a fight.
These images are accompanied by the commentary: “Men can beat women and win medals but there are no prizes for those who get up every day to go to work.”
A new sexist and misogynistic attack clearly targeting the Algerian Olympic champion. One more. When she won her gold medal, Trump promised to “keep men away from female categories”, if he was elected.
The Algerian Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif, despite herself, found herself at the heart of a gender controversy during the Paris Olympics. The harassment she suffered was such that she filed a complaint targeting Elon Musk, JK Rowling and Donald Trump in particular.
She was the victim of a hate campaign on social networks at the end of her first fight against the Italian Angela Carini, suggesting that she would be “a man fighting women”. The same words repeated by Trump. An investigation was opened in France after the filing of this complaint for aggravated cyberharassment.
According to his lawyer Nabil Boudi, the criminal investigation carried out by a specialized unit of the Paris Prosecutor's Office aims to determine “who was at the initiative of this misogynistic, racist and sexist campaign” et “must also be interested in those who fueled this digital lynching.”
Imane Khelif, aged 25, and licensed at Nice Azur Boxe won the -66 kg final on August 9 at the Paris Olympics. During the Tokyo Games in the summer of 2021, his participation did not cause any controversy.
