The tackle stuck in his throat, and he let it be known. In recent days, a small exchange of arms has occurred between Slimane and Nagui, through interposed supports.
The host visibly had difficulty highlighting Slimane’s Music, in turmoil over accusations of sexual harassment and assault. A few days later, the singer responded in the middle of a concert to Nagui’s pique.
“There, that’s enough!” »
It all started on December 30 when Nagui, at the helm of his show Don’t forget the lyricspresented Benoît, candidate maestro, with the choice of songs from the “Paname or Pan Am” category. As usual, the host first broadcast a long extract from Wild Nighta song from the 1980s by the group The Planes. But when playing the other option, the song Panama by Slimane, Nagui quickly interrupted the song, before saying: “That’s enough!” », to the surprise of his maestro.
“Well, you don’t like him? », asked Benoît. “We’ll let others decide what to think,” the host replied. But when the candidate finally chose to perform the winner’s song The VoiceNagui stood still. “Very good, when it’s you who sing it, that suits me,” he commented.
The response on stage
A sequence which visibly reached Slimane, who clearly did not appreciate it. And it was on stage that the singer responded to the dig that had been addressed to him. This Wednesday, in the middle of a concert at the Accor Arena in Paris, as part of his “Cupidon Tour”, the singer sent a short message to the host while singing the famous song Panama : “I’m going to sing a song that Nagui likes,” he told his fans.
Slimane, 35, is on tour for his “Cupid tour”. In May, he took fourth place in Eurovision with his song “Mon amour”.
-Revealed by the talent show The Voice on TF1 which he won in 2016, he was at the top, during his duo with the singer Vitaa, in the album sales ranking in France in 2020 with their opus “Versus “. Their title “It’s going to come” allowed them to win a Victoire de la Musique that year in the original song category. On November 2, he won the French-speaking Male Artist trophy at the NRJ Music Awards 2024.
In the turmoil
But for several months, the singer has been in turmoil. On October 28, a tour technician filed a complaint for sexual harassment against the singer, claiming to have received pornographic messages and videos during the same evening.
In mid-December, a new complaint for sexual assault was filed in Saint-Etienne against Slimane. A second complaint “was filed on behalf of a technician from the show organized on December 17 at the Zénith in Saint-Etienne,” reported the plaintiff’s lawyer, Me Anne-Sophie Charrieras. The acts alleged against the artist occurred “at the end of the concert, in the presence of several witnesses whose list is attached to the complaint”, and who, for some, had filmed the scene, according to the lawyer.
The singer, who was to participate next January in the Enfoirés concert series for the Restos du coeur, would have been excluded from the tour due to his legal troubles, in order to avoid any controversy surrounding this charity event.
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