Since the beginning of the month, Caen town hall has been offering an Advent calendar like no other to its residents: a window in the town hall reveals a different surprise every evening. Tightrope walking, harp show, sketch on the Millennium, Joseph Kamel concert…: the event seems well attended and appreciated.
“A fifteenth window transformed into a political forum”
Only here: everything did not go as planned, Sunday December 15 in the evening, for box number 15. “Poetry had to be in the spotlight, and we had chosen a Caen artist recognized in this field with the sole task of producing a family show in the spirit of the end-of-year celebrations, writes the mayor, Aristide Olivier, in a press release on social networks. Unfortunately, he did not prove himself worthy of our trust, and transformed this fifteenth window into a political forum. »
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The artist notably chose to evoke the conflicts in the Middle East. “Regardless of the remarks which in no way bind the City of Caen, it was neither the place nor the time. The public had not come to listen to a particularly divisive activist intervention,” apologizes the elected official, taken by surprise and feeling betrayed, with his teams, by this proposal which would not respect the “specifications” capable of satisfying the public gathered here. “Some of the spectators also left to show their dissatisfaction”notes Aristide Olivier, presenting his “most sincere apologies” in his press release.
