00:00And clearly, there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group.
00:20On the contrary, I think that Majoliet really tried to, really intended to celebrate community
00:26tolerance. That was his word yesterday. And looking at the result of the polls that we shared,
00:33we believe that this ambition was achieved. If people have taken any offense, we are of
00:41course really, really sorry. It was a ceremony like no other, and those are games like no other.
00:47I think that our hosts, it's easy for me to say, and we should all be grateful and thankful,
00:53they have put together a vision for these games, which is unprecedented. It's an incredible vision
00:59for games. We're trying to showcase that in the best possible way.
01:23In France, artistic creation is free. It's the first article of the Law on the Freedom of Creation.
01:30I took advantage of it, like other freedoms in France. In this country, we are lucky to have that.
01:36There was no desire for me to send any more, how to say, militant messages.
01:44They were simply Republican messages. In France, we have the right to love each other as we want,
01:49with whom we want. In France, we have the right to believe or not to believe. In France, we have the right,
01:55we have a lot of rights. And it was the idea of making these values transparent through the ceremony.
02:04So we made it very clear from the IOC, an operational mistake was made. We can only apologize
02:11in an evening of so many moving parts that that mistake was made, and we apologize to
02:17to people from the Republic of Korea for that error.
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