The court was contacted after comments deemed racist were reported to French singer Aya Nakamura, who was expected to sing at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games. The controversy is gaining momentum!
At the very beginning of March, the newspaper The Express revealed that the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron had met the Franco-Malian singer Aya Nakamurarecently the victim of a burglary at his home, with a view to organizing the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games. The interpreter would thus have been asked to Pookie to perform some emblematic titles belonging to the repertoire ofEdith Piaf. We want to make this event a marker of “the universalism of French values”, which immediately sparked very mixed reactions on social networks. Many Internet users registered on X (formerly Twitter) very quickly expressed their dismay at this choice, before the political class seized the news.
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It is from there that the possible participation of Aya Nakamura in the ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games, scheduled for July 26, turned into a controversy, the Far Right having decided to target the singer. In particular, we heard Marion Maréchal take offense at the microphone BFM TV earlier this week. “The political choice is to say: we want to represent multicultural France, we want to represent, forgive me, France which does not speak French, because this singer, we like or don’t like, but she doesn’t sing in French“she notably decried, insisting that the artist recently rewarded at the Victoires de la Musique did not represent the language of Molière in her sense.
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LICRA seized the Paris prosecutor’s office
In addition to these controversial remarks, we also heard the President of the Senate Gérard Larcher say that it was “a somewhat disruptive choice from the President of the Republic”. “When I look at the text of his songs, I find that we are quite far from the representation of our country”he suggested Thursday March 13 in Telematin (France 2). But on social networks, the speeches are much more vehement and acid attacks have also been made against Aya Nakamura. So that the LICRA (International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism) made a report to the Paris public prosecutor’s office to request a control of the drifts, also on March 13.
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This is howAn investigation has been opened within the National Center for the Fight against Online Hate of the Paris Prosecutor’s Office, which should satisfy the defenders of the singer who remains relatively silent to the attacks for the moment. And they are many ! Indeed, within the political class, the Minister of Culture Rachida Dati rose with wind this week. She qualified the remarks “unacceptable” read and heard here and there in recent days. “Be careful of pretexts for attacking someone out of pure racism”she warned during a session in the Senate on Tuesday March 12. “Attacking an artist for who she is is unacceptable, it is a crime“, she also specified. At the same time, the Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra caused a buzz by playing the song on France 5taking up the cult title Djadja before being mocked on the web.
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Patrick Bruel and Benjamin Biolay take offense
The artists did not remain indifferent either. It is Benjamin Biolay who raised his voice on the radio RTLdenouncing earlier this week the “old boomers and reactors”. “I find it crazy. This young woman who has incredible talent is our best-selling artist abroad, in French. That’s no small thing. The fascists are tearing her apart in every direction. I don’t feel protected, this young woman.”he declared, enjoined by Patrick Bruel at the microphone of BFM TV. “The problem with this kind of debate is that it takes the debate to very bad territory that we would not like to hear. I would not like to imagine the reasons why there is this controversy”he falsely questioned.
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The presence of Aya Nakamura for the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games divides public opinion. According to a Odoxa Winamax RTL surveythe French estimate 63% that it would be “a bad idea” to blackmail Ayan Nakamura. They would prefer him Jean-Jacques Goldman at 26%, Florent Pagny at 25% and Vianney at 20%, or even David Guetta, Grand Corps Malade and Mylène Farmer. Verdict in the coming weeks, for sure!
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