The singer Izïa, who had mentioned a lynching of Emmanuel Macron in concert on Thursday July 6, performed Wednesday at the Francofolies in La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime) without making a wave, except for the wave of joy in the public in front of his show.
The daughter of Jacques Higelin, a beast of the stage, just spoke of the La Rochelle festival, one of the main summer events in France, as a “land of asylum”, the only reference to the controversy.
The town hall of Marcq-en-Barœul (North) had meanwhile decided on Monday to cancel the singer’s concert scheduled for Thursday evening in the town, because of remarks deemed “scandalous” and “of great violence” against the Head of State that she held on stage near Nice last week.
“We don’t abandon the people we love”
The boss of the Francofolies, Gérard Pont, kept Izïa on the bill because she “is part of the Francofolies family”. “We love her, that’s why we invited her. It is not in turmoil that we abandon the people we love,” he said on Wednesday. on franceinfo. His father, Jacques Higelin, was one of the totem artists of the La Rochelle event.
VIDEO. Singer Izïa calls for the lynching of Macron in the middle of a concert, the Nice prosecutor’s office opens an investigation
Gérard Pont however added: “Obviously, I was very shocked by these remarks and I support all our elected officials”. It was not Izïa’s first concert since her slippage last week, during the “Les nuits guitares” festival in Beaulieu-sur-Mer.
Referring to the head of state, the interpreter of the hit “The wave” had imagined how he could be publicly lynched by the spectators. Izïa had spoken between two songs, at the microphone, of an Emmanuel Macron “20 meters from the ground, like a giant human piñata”. “And there, we would bring him down. (…) And we would 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…”, she continued, in a sequence relayed on social networks.
An open investigation
The Nice prosecutor’s office announced the opening of an investigation targeting the singer for “public provocation to commit a crime or an offense”.
“I am very sorry that this was misinterpreted, decontextualized. At no time, of course, did I want to incite violence or hatred, ”defended Izïa in an interview with Ouest-France published Monday evening. “It’s a story, an improvised and surreal link between two titles that talks about everything and nothing and that shouldn’t be taken at face value,” she added.
2023-07-13 11:50:41
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