An investigation into French singer Izïa Higelin for “public provocation to commit a felony or misdemeanor” was launched after the artist spoke at a concert of a lynching of President Emmanuel Macron, prosecutors told AFP on Saturday.
In a nod to the head of state, during his concert on Thursday night in Beaulieu-sur-Mer as part of a festival in the south of France, the artist imagined on stage how he could be publicly lynched by spectators.
“I know him, what a cheek,” he said to himself there, “which would be good. I think what people want, what people want, is that they’re hanging on me 20 meters up like a giant human.’ Pinata, and that we’re all here with giant bats with nails at the end like in Clockwork Orange ‘, the film ‘Clockwork Orange’, she said, according to a video from the concert.
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And the singer, daughter of singer Jacques Higelin, continues, according to this video published on the website and the Tik Tok account of culture magazine InOut Côte d’Azur: “And there we would bring him down, but with all that.” Grace and kindness that the people of the South have, right above you, and we’d have our whole club with our little nails, and in a Bengal fire of bonfires, of living flesh and blood, we’d knock it down, but beautiful you see.. .”.
“I’ll see the Nice-Matin headline tomorrow: + Izïa calls for the assassination of Macron +,” the singer would then have joked, according to the regional daily, which reported on this concert in its columns on Saturday morning, thereby provoking a reaction revealed the gendarmes’ unsuccessful attempt to question him at the end of the show.
“Citizen marches” of “mourning and anger” against police violence are being announced in several French cities on Saturday, days after the death of young Nahel, who was killed by a police officer during a traffic stop and sparked night-time riots across the country.
Nahel, 17, was killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in Nanterre, a western Paris suburb, on June 27. The ensuing urban violence, unprecedented since 2005, shed a harsh light on the ills of French society, from the troubles of working-class neighborhoods to the stormy relations between young people and the police.