Bilal Hassani filed a complaint

A week after canceling his concert in Metz in the former Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains church, Bilal Hassani announces on the show Daily having filed several complaints for incitement to hatred, violence and discrimination against far-right movements and individuals.

>> Bilal Hassani’s concert canceled in Metz after threats: “I’m starting to get tired, it’s scary”, admits the artist

These complaints are more specifically aimed at the far-right movements Aurora, Civitas and a group, “discussion national Metz”. This one held”threatening remarks and wanted to carry out violent actions on the day of the concert“, according to Amina Frühauf, the mother of Bilal Hassani. As for the people targeted, they are Twitter users who have posted hate messages.

Investigation opened against X

The Metz prosecutor opened an investigation against X the day after the cancellation of the concert, “for threatening to commit an offense against a person because of his or her sexual orientation, inciting hatred against a person because of his or her sexual orientation, and public and unenforced provocation to commit a crime or misdemeanor“, according France Blue Lorraine North.

On Wednesday April 5, the Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul Malak, said to herself “very concerned” by “threats, attacks” suffered by the singer Bilal Hassani, at the microphone of France Inter, “These attacks against Bilal Hassani are neither more nor less homophobic attacks, transphobic attacks. It is the hatred of everything that comes close to the queer universe”she thought.

The singer had confided on France 5 “be a little tired“: the artist who has suffered homophobic harassment campaigns on social networks for several years. “I’ve been exposed for four years, I’m still a human being, I’m 23, I started when I was 19, it’s a lot to carry on my shoulders“, he had explained in the emission It’s up to you.