The Nice prosecutor’s office concluded that there were “no sufficiently serious offences”, after the singer’s comments targeting the President during a concert in Beaulieu-sur-Mer in July 2023, “Libération” learned this Friday. The artist had suffered multiple public condemnations and deprogramming.
The epilogue of a carnivalesque episode, which took on disproportionate proportions. The investigation targeting singer Izïa Higelin for “public provocation to commit a crime or misdemeanor” after his comments on Emmanuel Macron was dismissed in May 2024 by the Nice prosecutor’s office, we learned Liberation this Friday, October 18. The body made this decision “in the absence of sufficiently serious offenses”.
The procedure was opened in July 2023, without any complaint having been filed, after a tirade by the singer, during a concert in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, where she imagined the lynching of the President of the Republic. Between two songs played on stage at the “Les Nuits Guitares” festival, Izïa Higelin, against a backdrop of guitar chords, declared about the Head of State: “He said to himself, what would be good, I think that what the people want, what the people want, is for me to be hung 20 meters from the ground like a giant human piñata, and that we are all present here equipped with enormous bats with nails on the end like in [le film Orange mécanique].»
“And there we would bring it down, but with all the grace and kindness that the people of the South have, there right above you, and we would all have our bat with our little nails, and in a Bengal fire of joy, of living flesh and blood, we would throw him to the ground, but kindly you see…” “I can already see the headline of Nice-Morning tomorrow: Izïa calls for the murder of Macron”, the singer would then have quipped ironically, the regional daily reported.
“Above all, don’t take it at face value”
There was no shortage of that. The deputy mayor of Beaulieu (ex-LR Macronist) in charge of Culture, Marie-José Lasry, then attended the concert, and said she “very annoyed”, to the point of going to testify at the gendarmerie and “blacklisting” Izïa Higelin from the town of Alpes-Maritimes. In the process, the singer was canceled from the July 14 concert in Marcq-en-Barœul (North). The elected LR Bernard Gérard had judged “scandalous” the words of the artist, and “of great violence towards the President of the Republic”, as well as “criminally reprehensible”.
Jacques Higelin’s daughter then spoke out to defend herself, evoking a “fantasy story”, “an improvised and surreal link between two titles which talks about everything and nothing and which should definitely not be taken at face value”. “At no time in my concerts do I incite violence or hatred. They are always places of kindness and love, of madness and improvisation. she assured. Justice will have proven him right.
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