This Thursday, July 6, 2023, at Beaulieu-sur-Mer Guitar Nights, Izïa Higelin made the show… in every sense of the word! The singer with pop-rock sounds also decided to do acid on stage by launching into a diatribe about the President of the Republic, Emanuel Macron. In a video, relayed since on all social networks, we see the 32-year-old artist swinging these words: “He said to himself, what would be good, what the people want, is to hang me twenty meters above the ground, like a giant human piñata. And we’re all here with huge bats with nailsas in A Clockwork Orange (Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick editor’s note), you see. And there they would bring him down, but with all the grace and kindness that the southern people have. And we would all have our bats, with our little nails.And in a bengal fire of joy, of living flesh and blood,wewould sink to the ground. But gently, you see…”.
The singer and actress Izïa Higelin (daughter of, César of the best hope) launched Thursday evening in Beaulieu-sur-Mer in a skid (un) controlled against Emmanuel MacronShe flees at the end of the concert a police arrest (Nice -Morning) pic.twitter.com/flxukqZjTP
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“I can’t believe it… It feels like a meeting of La France Insoumise”
In front of her, the public is flabbergasted… some people even went to report the incident to the police. So much so that at the end of the performance, gendarmes from the Beaulieu-sur-Mer company showed up behind the scenes to arrest the singer. But without being able to find it. According to our colleagues from nice morning, in their edition of July 7, 2023, the mayor of Beaulieu, Roger Roux, would not take off. The latter spoke in the columns of the daily: “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. The aedile continues: “I can’t believe it… It’s like a meeting of La France Insoumise. If she wants to joke, she just has to drop the song and become a comedian. There is asuch violence in his words, it’s nonsense”, did he declare. “We have made efforts to maintain this festival. I find it a shame to tarnish it with comments that have no place here. I am not a pro-Macron, but I would never allow myself to insult him”, continues Roger Roux. And regret: “Today, we want everything except to hear someone threaten, insult, smear anyone. Right now, we need to go to festivals to relax, with artists we like. . Me, Izïa, I didn’t know hernot. But there were about 1,000 people for her. They may appreciate her as a singer, but not as a newscaster.” For their part, the co-producers of Guitar Nights,Directo Productions and Panda Events, expressed themselves in a press release sent by email the day after the events: “Izïa’s words are his own. The production stands out from any position.”A case that may well not stop there…
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