This Thursday, July 6, 2023, on the festival stage “Guitar Nights”, in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, Izïa Higelin publicly launched into a diatribe about the President of the Republic, Emanuel Macron, imagining him “like a giant human piñata. And that we are all present here equipped huge bats with nails (…) And we would all have our bats, with our little nails. And in a bengal fire of joy, of living flesh and blood, we would put him down.” At the end of the concert, the gendarmes tried to arrest the 34-year-old singer but without success, the latter having fled. “The gendarmes explained to me that they were there to arrest the artist. They were unable to do so, she would have been exfiltrated in her bus. The regulations mean that you can’t go in like that. There were long palavers between the manager and the gendarmerie”had explained the mayor of Beaulieu, Roger Roux to our colleagues from Nice morning.
Izïa Higelin is not welcome in Marcq-en-Baroeul, after his violent remarks on Macron #IziaHigelinhttps://t.co/MnDWzrGq13
— The Voice of the North (@lavoixdunord) July 9, 2023
“In the name of the people”, ̈ demands the lynching of@EmmanuelMacron : it is not an artistic performance, but a call to murder, which triggers an investigation for “public provocation to commit a crime or an offense”. I don’t believe that the Marcquois… pic.twitter.com/5Wzo9Wmv4f
— Violette Spillebout (@VSPILLEBOUT) July 9, 2023
Some elected officials in the North speak of “a call for murder”
Since then, the Nice public prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation for “public provocation to commit a crime or misdemeanor”. We learn, this Sunday, July 9, that following these remarks, and according to information from The voice of the North, the town hall of Marcq-en-Barœul is considering canceling the participation of Izïa Higelin at the next National Day concert. Our colleagues report the words of Bernard Gérard, the mayor of this northern city: “The coming to Marcq-en-Barœul of this artist, for a public, free and family concert would be in contradiction withgathering values prevailing during our National Day”. And to add:These remarks of great violence deeply shocked me”. Other elected officials follow him in this direction, such as the Renaissance MP for the constituency, Violette Spillebout, who speaks “of a call to murder”. “I do not believe that the Marcquois want to legitimize such an offence”, she shares on Twitter. To be continued…
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