Gims is still at the heart of a major controversy. On January 2, DemDem’s husband asked his fans not to wish him a happy new year. ” Please leave me with the ‘Happy New Year, New Year’… Leave me with that. You know very well that I never replied to that and you keep sending me ‘happy new years’. In addition, Muslims stop it, we have the same convictions! They are the ones who send most of the ‘happy new years’. Brothers, we don’t celebrate […]. No guys, it’s not part of our convictions “. A statement that did not fail to react to Internet users.
Especially since his message continued: When I see big fir trees at Mustafa, Bakari, I see that we are not concentrated at home there “. On social networks, the artist had then suffered a wave of hatred. But if he preferred to remain silent, Gims finally speaks. This January 23, the 35-year-old singer spoke in the columns of the Journal du Dimanche. ” This video, I totally regret it. It was a UFO, I don’t usually communicate like that. I didn’t want to hurt people. Sometimes it’s intimate. Social networks should not be a springboard to talk about this. It in no way changes my relationship with my audience, animist, Buddhist, Catholic, Muslim… This video was made with spontaneity late at night. I am really sorry. »
Converted to Islam in the early 2000s, Gims adds that his mother is of the Christian faith ” like his father or his brothers “. ” You would have to put a cameraman with me for 48 hours to see how I work, the number of people from all walks of life that I meet “, he explains before concluding: “ There I was tired, I had just watched a lot of snaps for the New Year, I was doing the idiot “. It remains to be seen whether his words will have an impact on angry fans.