A concert “in contradiction with the values of gathering which prevail during our National Day”. The mayor LR of Marcq-en-Barœul (North) Bernard Gérard wishes to cancel the coming of the singer Izïa to the festivities of July 13 after his controversial remarks against Emmanuel Macron, he indicates to La Voix du North and France 3.
During a concert in Beaulieu-sur-Mer (Alpes-Maritimes) on Thursday July 6, the artist, daughter of Jacques Higelin, imagined a lynching of the President of the Republic, hanging “20 meters from the ground like a giant human pinata “, by the public with “huge bats with nails at the end”. “And there, we would bring him down, […] and in a bengal fire of joy, of living flesh and blood, we would throw him to the ground, but gently, you see…”
An investigation for “public provocation to commit a crime or misdemeanor” has been opened by the Nice prosecutor’s office, we learned over the weekend. “It’s not an artistic performance, but a call to murder”, denounced on Twitter the Renaissance MP for the constituency, Violette Spillebout. “I do not believe that the Marcquois want to legitimize such an offence.”
“Deeply shocked” by these remarks “of great violence”, as he explains in La Voix du Nord, the mayor of Marcq-en-Barœul therefore plans to deprogram the artist, who still appears at the head of the bill on the city’s website, this Monday, July 10. The city councilor plans to ratify his decision during the day.
“It’s funny that no one wants to separate the wife from the artist,” reacted EELV MP Sandrine Rousseau on Twitter. Several left-wing elected officials supported Izïa Higelin, particularly indignant at the attempted arrest of the gendarmes after her “artistic performance”. “Are we in North Korea?” LFI deputy Carlos Martens-Bilongo was indignant. In Nice-Matin, the mayor of Beaulieu-sur-Mer indeed explained that the gendarmes tried to arrest the singer after her concert, in vain.
