Detox. No, the group Indochine did not broadcast an anti-vaccine message during its concert on May 21

For their 40-year anniversary tour, the pop rock band Indochine played Saturday May 21 at the Stade de France in front of 97,000 fans. An image of the event was shared by many netizens. On a giant screen in the middle of the stadium, a message was displayed: They lie. They know they are lying. They know we know they are lying. But they keep lying “.

This quote, which has circulated a lot among anti-vax and anti-sanitary pass activists over the past two years, was perceived by them as a nod from the group to their cause, and a denunciation of the supposed lies of the French executive.

Contacted by Désintox, the entourage of the group is surprised by this interpretation of a sentence, which is often attributed to the dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and explains that its political significance was quite different. During the concert, the phrase came to be displayed at the end of an old song, The Czars who denounces the abuse of power. In the current context, it was a question of showing the Ukrainian people its support, informed Désintox the group which split a development on Facebook.

Indochine is, in fact, not very suspicious of complacency with the covidosceptic sphere. The collective had indeed volunteered to participate in a first test concert with the health authorities in May 2021. At the same time, its leader Nicola Sirkis explained that he was not at all ” in the mood of people from the culture who yell at the government, as if they were the ones who invented the virus “. Adding: ” I would not like to be in the place of the members of the government, it is a horrible site to manage “. Difficult to make less conspiratorial.

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