The town hall of Marcq-en-Barœul, in the north of France, announced on Monday July 10 that it was canceling the Izïa concert on July 13 in the city, due to remarks judged “ scandalous held by the singer on stage on July 6 against the President of the Republic.
The town hall led by a Les Républicains mayor, Bernard Gérard, announced in a press release that it had decided to “ unilaterally terminate the part of the contract relating to the performance of the singer » for this concert preceding the fireworks of the national holiday.
According to the municipality, the remarks made by the singer, daughter of Jacques Higelin, during a concert near Nice on July 6, evoking a lynching of Emmanuel Macron, were ” scandalous, of great violence against the President of the Republic ” And ” criminally reprehensible “.
” The coming to Marcq-en-Baroeul of this artist, for a public, free and family concert […] would therefore be in contradiction with the values of gathering and unity that prevail during our national holiday “, Continues the community in its press release. Contacted by AFP, Believe, Izïa’s label, did not react immediately.
This decision follows a deluge of reactions after the Nice prosecutor’s office announced on Saturday that it had opened an investigation targeting the singer for ” public provocation to commit a crime or misdemeanor “. The Renaissance du Nord MP, Violette Spillebout, thus pointed out on Twitter on Sunday a “ call for murder in a context of violence against elected officials. Others have defended freedom of expression, like the rapper Médine.
“In the name of the people”, 𝗜𝘇𝗶̈𝗮 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻 calls for the lynching of@EmmanuelMacron : it is not an artistic performance, but a call to murder, which triggers an investigation for “public provocation to commit a crime or an offense”.
I don’t believe that the Marcquois… pic.twitter.com/5Wzo9Wmv4f— Violette Spillebout (@VSPILLEBOUT) July 9, 2023
Referring to the Head of State during a concert Thursday evening in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, in the Alpes-Maritimes, as part of the “Les Nuits Guitares” festival, Izia Higelin had imagined how he could be publicly lynched by the spectators” I know him, what a naughty one, he said to himself there, which would be good, I think that what the people want, what the people want, is that they hang me 20 m away from the ground like a giant human pinata, and that we are all present here with huge bats with nails at the end like in Clockwork Orange [le film Orange mécanique, NDLR] “, had launched the singer.
And to continue, according to a video posted on the site and the TikTok account of the cultural magazine InOut Côte d’Azur: ” And there we’d bring him down, but with all the grace and kindness that the southern people have, there, right above you, and we’d all have our bats with our little nails, and in a bengal fire of joy, of living flesh and blood, we would put him on the ground, but gently, you see… »