An investigation targeting the singer Izïa Higelin for “public provocation to commit a crime or an offense” was opened by the Nice prosecutor’s office, said this last Saturday, after the artist mentioned a lynching of Emmanuel Macron during a concert on Thursday. “It is the territorial brigade of the gendarmerie of Beaulieu-sur-Mer (Alpes-Maritimes) and the research brigade” which are seized of the investigation, added the Nice prosecutor, Xavier Bonhomme, confirming initial information from Nice morning . Stating that the investigation did not follow a complaint.
Referring to the Head of State, during his concert Thursday evening in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, as part of the Les nuits guitare festival, the artist imagines how he could be publicly lynched by the spectators: “I know him, what naughty that one. And he said to himself, “There, what would be good, what the people want, what the people want, is to hang me 20 meters above the ground like a giant human pinata, and ‘we’re all here with huge bats with nails on the end like in Clockwork Orange’”.
And the singer continued, swaying her hips, against a musical background, according to a video posted on the site and the Tik Tok account of the cultural magazine InOut Côte d’Azur: “And there, we would bring him down, but with all the grace and kindness that the people of the South have, right above you, and we’d all have our bats with our little nails, and in a bengal fire of bonfires, of living flesh and blood, we’d fuck it up. earth, but nicely you see…”.
“I already see the headline of Nice-Matin tomorrow: “Izïa calls for the murder of Macron””, would then have quipped the singer, according to the regional daily which returned to this concert in its columns on Saturday morning, evoking an unsuccessful attempt by the gendarmes to question him at the end of the show.