Imane Khelif’s new big fight: the golden boxer files a complaint for cyberbullying
Barely had she triumphantly stepped down from the ring, at the end of a fight where her pugnacity had won everyone’s approval, that the now famous Algerian boxer, Imane Khelif, was waging battle in an arena other than the lion’s den of the Paris Olympics…
Her gloves temporarily hung up in the locker room, it is without a moment’s rest that the Olympic champion of the noble art, adored in Algeria, launches the legal counter-attack against a wild pack: the one that her slanderers have formed across borders, and throughout the prestigious competition.
At the height of her 25 years and her dizzying pedestal, Imane Khelif today has all the cards in hand to have her status as a victim of a ““digital lynching”in his own words, and condemn those who fueled it, orchestrated it, fanned it with rare vehemence.
” Tjust out gold medalist at the Paris 2024 Olympicsboxer Imane Khelif has decided to lead a new fight: that of justice, dignity and honor “, wrote his lawyer, Me Nabil Boudi, in a press release published on Saturday, August 10.
” The criminal investigation will determine who initiated this misogynistic, racist and sexist campaign, but will also have to focus on those who fueled this digital lynching. “, he said, before delivering the final blow: ” Unfair harassment suffered by the boxing champion will remain the biggest stain of these Olympic Games.”
The day after her well-deserved coronation, it is with the help of legal articles that the boxer, who makes hearts beat in unison in Algeria, begins her new great fight. It will take place in the national center for combating online hatred, within of the Paris Criminal Court.
