Made responsible for the cancellation of a second concert date of Beyoncé at the Stade de France in May, Valérie Pécresse responded to her detractors.
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VS’is a speech that has not failed to make people talk on social networks. Accused of being responsible for the absence of a second date for Beyoncé’s concert at the Stade de France due to work on the RER B, Valérie Pécresse counter-attacked on Wednesday February 8 by questioning the production company of the show. “I have absolutely nothing to do with it,” said the president of the Île-de-France region.
“I have received many messages from Beyoncé fans who are extremely disappointed by the cancellation of her second concert date in Paris,” the former presidential candidate revealed in a video posted on TikTok and Instagram. Live Nation, the company that produces Beyoncé’s concert scheduled for May 26 at the Stade de France, said on Tuesday that it was unable to organize a second date there the following day due to work carried out by the SNCF throughout. weekend on the northern section of RER B to regenerate the tracks.
“So it seems it’s my fault. I’m going to rectify things, ”continues Valérie Pécresse with the background sound of the tube “Crazy in Love” by Beyoncé and Jay-Z. “I have a wide back, but do not kidding”, insists the one who also chairs Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM), the authority which organizes transport in the Ile-de-France region. “The dates of the transport works that lead to the Stade de France (…) are known two years in advance and all the event producers know it”, underlines Valérie Pécresse again.
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The boss of Live Nation France, Angelo Gopee, does not say the opposite. He told Agence France-Presse on Tuesday evening that he had been confronted with “a problem of transporting spectators”. “We were told from the start that there would only be Friday, May 26 possible. It is therefore not a financial shortfall for us, we knew it, it is a shortfall for the spectators, ”he lamented.
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“There is such a demand for Beyoncé, it’s phenomenal, we could have filled the Stade de France on May 27,” he continued. Tickets for “Queen B” at the Stade de France on May 26 and at the Vélodrome in Marseille on June 11 sold out in less than an hour on the various sales platforms.
“You should not discard on others, it’s not very courageous,” replied Valérie Pécresse. “Me, I love Beyoncé, I say welcome to Île-de-France, but, next time, we will have to take a producer who will check that the stadium is available on the right date”, concluded the regional president.