Izia Higelin is the source of a buzz after her diatribe against the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron during a concert in Beaulieu-sur-Mer last week. While an investigation is opened by the Nice prosecutor’s office, the singer has already been sanctioned.
From the end of his concert which took place in Beaulieu-sur-Mer on Thursday July 6as part of the Les Nuits Guitares festival, his remarks triggered the social media controversy. Before the buzz grows and is quickly publicized! During her show, the singer Izia Higelindaughter of Jacques Higelin and sister of singer Arthur H, imagined how the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron could be lynched by citizens in the public square. “We would all have our bat with our little nails, and in a bengal fire of bonfire, of living flesh and blood, we would knock it down” she notably chanted in front of the delirious crowd.
On July 8, justice was seized and an investigation was opened by the Nice prosecutor’s office For “public provocation to commit a crime or misdemeanor”. “It is the territorial brigade of the gendarmerie of Beaulieu-sur-Mer (Alpes-Maritimes) and the research brigade” who are in charge of the investigation, quickly clarified the public prosecutor Xavier Bonhomme. But that’s not all, the mother of a four-year-old boy is already hit by a first penaltyon the initiative of the mayor of the municipality of Marcq-en-Baroeul Bernard Gerard.
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One of Izia’s next concerts canceled
The mayor labeled Les Républicains refuses that the 32-year-old singer perform on July 13 in his town located in the Nord department, as planned for the celebrations surrounding the National Day. Bernard Gérard asked on Monday July 10 that the contract which bound the artist to the city be broken “unilaterally” because of his words that he “scandalous” And “criminally reprehensible” (RTL). Izia indeed risks up to five years in prison and a €45,000 fine. The day before, the mayor of Marcq-en-Barœul had already made it known that he was hostile to his arrival. “The coming to Marcq of this artist for a public concert, free and family, would be in contradiction with the values of gathering that prevail during our National Day“ he said in a statement.
Other political figures have seized on the controversy and opinions are divided. While the deputy of the North Violette Spillebout lines up behind the opinion of Bernard Gérard; the organizers of the Francofolies de la Rochelle where Izia is due to perform this Wednesday July 12 confirm her coming (France Blue La Rochelle).
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Izia speaks up and defends herself
It remains to be seen whether the singer who is currently causing a sensation with her disc Speed and the pipe My heart will come back to the incident on this occasion. For now, it’s in the columns of West France let her defend herself. “I am very sorry that this was misinterpreted, decontextualized. At no time obviously, I did not want to incite violence or hatred“ she claimed, revealing that it was a “fantasy story, a shared moment of free spiritartistic”and who was not “not directed in any direction”. Talking about her gigs, Izia described “places of benevolence and love, madness and improvisation”. “It’s just that plain and simple” she concluded on the subject.
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