According to information from Le Parisien, technicians from the Vitaa tour are opposed to Slimane's presence this Wednesday, December 4, at the concert planned at the Accord Arena. They claim to have been pressured by the singer and those around her.
Slimane is accused of sexual harassment and assault by two technicians on his tour. These two complaints have repercussions on the Vitaa tour.
Indeed, according to the Parisianthe singer would like her friend to join her on stage this Wednesday, December 4 at the Accor Arena. But technicians would oppose the singer's arrival.
In the middle of a tour, Vitaa has to manage a conflict with his technicians about Slimane
This Wednesday, December 4, Vitaa will perform at the Accord Arena, as part of its tour which began on October 25. But this series of concerts would be disrupted by “the Slimane affair“. According to information from Parisiantechnicians ensure that the atmosphere is “heavy, even harmful“. For two weeks, these
oppose the presence of Slimane as a guest on the Parisian stage.
“We signed for Vitaa, not for Slimane“, explained one of them, in conflict with the production of the tour. “Our job is to put an artist on a pedestal on stage and we don't want to put a guy on a pedestal who is the subject of two complaints for sexual assault and sexual harassment, which is also filed by colleagues, sometimes friends. Of course, Slimane benefits from the presumption of innocence, but we know the artist and the atmosphere on his tours. Out of the question to work for him“, they admitted to our colleagues.
Slimane affair: technicians shocked by the reaction of Vitaa and his friend
The production announces that Slimane will finally come to the Accor Arena, this Wednesday, December 4. But the forty technicians then face
Vitaaher husband Hicham Bendaoud, co-founder of Indifférence Prod, and Nicolas Coullier, director of Play Two Live, director of Vitaa and Slimane. “Charlotte (the singer's real first name, Editor's note) makes us feel guiltyr,” says a technician.She doesn't understand why someone is doing this to her when she has nothing to do with it. She experiences it as a
betrayal and says that Slimane is like his brother and that like in any family, we remain
united even if we don't condone all the bullshit” he adds.
Technicians want to exercise their right of withdrawal on the Parisian concert. However, they offer to find replacements, so that the show can be guaranteed. But finally, after the concert in Montpellier, this 1is
December : “Hicham announces to us that 'Slimane will come to Paris, that’s how it is'. And at the end of the tense discussion, seeing that we are not changing our position, he threatens to cancel the tour” assures a technician to the Parisian. This Monday, December 2, still according to the comments relayed by the Parisian, Marc Daniel, the production director of Play Two, a subsidiary of the TF1 group, called the rebels. According to the latter, he put them “and big burst of pressure“and the”threat of legal action“Professionals fear losing their contracts or being blacklisted by this group.”very powerful“.
