The skid ofIzia Higelin could not be without consequence… Thursday evening, July 6, the 32-year-old singer delivered a remarkable performance at the Nuit Guitare festival in Beaulieu-sur-Mer. The reason ? Between two songs, the artist grabbed the microphone to talk about the President of the Republic.
“What a naughty one, he said to himself what would be good, what the people want, what the people want, is that they hang me 20 meters from the ground, like a giant human piñata , and that we are all here with huge bats with nails on the end like in [Orange Mécanique]. And there they would bring him down, with all the grace and kindness that the southern people have. […] And in a bengal fire, of joy, of living flesh and blood, we would put him on the ground… but gently “she said in front of the festival-goers, some of whom were so taken aback that they immediately informed the gendarmes.
A speech that immediately made the mayor of the city where the event took place react: “Today, we want everything except to hear someone threaten, insult, smear anyone. At the moment, we need to go to festivals to relax, with artists we like”he lamented in Nice morning.
In the process, an investigation was also opened to ” public provocation to commit a crime or misdemeanor » said Saturday, July 8, 2023 the Nice prosecutor’s office.
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Alba Ventura curries the singer
On the waves of RTLthis Monday, July 10, 2023, Alba Ventura did not fail to react in turn to the long tirade of Izïa Higelin… And as much to say that the journalist was, too, amazed.
“Izïa Higelin, in the middle of a concert on Thursday July 6 in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, therefore imagined the President of the Republic “hanging twenty meters from the ground like a giant human piñata”, who would be hit with bats fitted with nails in the bout as in A Clockwork Orange, a reference to Stanley Kubrick’s very violent film. All these words were spoken at a minimum… You tell yourself that she is completely possessed or in a satanic delirium. You have to watch the video anyway.”she recalled at first.
“There, Izïa Higelin goes much, much, much further. Calling for murder, crime, hatred as she does, it is outrageous. So much so that the concert she was to give on Thursday July 13 in Marcq-en-Barœul in the North is about to be canceled. The mayor, Bernard Gérard, has already made it known that “The coming of this artist for a free public and family concert would be in contradiction with the values of gathering which prevail during our national holiday.” Nothing to add “, she concluded. That is what is said.
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