the investigation targeting the singer was closed without further action

During a concert in Beaulieu-sur-Mer in July 2023, the artist imagined the public could have lynched the President of the Republic.

The investigation for “public provocation to commit a crime or misdemeanor” targeting the singer Izïa Higelin, after remarks on stage targeting Emmanuel Macron, was closed without further action, indicated Friday the public prosecutor of Nice, Damien Martinelli, to the Agence Radio France, confirming information from Libération.

“The procedure was dismissed in May 2024 in the absence of sufficiently serious offenses“, explains the Nice public prosecutor on Friday October 18. This investigation was opened in July 2023 after a tirade by the singer during a concert in Beaulieu-sur-Mer (Alpes-Maritimes). The singer, today now aged 34, had imagined between two songs how the President of the Republic could be publicly lynched by spectators.

These comments sparked a lively controversy, up to the highest level of the State. The government spokesperson at the time, Olivier Véran, described the artist’s comments on franceinfo as “null“, “useless” and “demagos“. “I do not incite violence or hatred“, the singer apologized in the newspaper Ouest-France, shortly before being scheduled for the Francofolies festival in La Rochelle.