For several weeks, Slimane has provoked numerous reactions after the revelations of Parisian. The daily revealed, last October, that Vitaa's friend and sidekick was the subject of several complaints from former technicians who had officiated on his tour Cupidon Tour.
The winner of The Voice is the subject of a first complaint for sexual harassment, for acts which allegedly took place during a party organized after a concert and a second, revealed three weeks later, for sexual assault and attempted sexual assault for events which allegedly took place on the same evening.
If, at present, the 35-year-old singer remains presumed innocent, some do not wish to collaborate with him at the moment. The proof, with the new revelations of Parisianthis Tuesday, December 3, 2024.
Vitaa technicians would refuse the presence of Slimane
The daily indicates that the singer Vitaa is a collateral victim of this affair. According to our colleagues, the interpreter of On the flower of you should in fact face the anger of his own technicians who are officiating on his current tour. These latter would oppose “for two weeks since Slimane came as a guest at Bercy (December 4, 2024, editor’s note) and want to assert their right of withdrawal”.
“We signed for Vitaa, not for Slimane. Our job is to put an artist on stage on a pedestal and we do not want to put on a pedestal a guy who is the target of two complaints for sexual assault and sexual harassment, which moreover is filed by colleagues (two technicians who worked on the singer's tour), sometimes friends”indicates one of them to Parisianin conflict with the tour production.
“Of course, Slimane benefits from the presumption of innocence, but we know the artist and the atmosphere on his tours. Working for him is out of the question”he adds, upset. According to the daily, the conflict between Vitaa and its technicians started on the eve of the 41-year-old singer's date in Dijon, November 17.
The singer would feel “betrayed”
They would indeed have learned of the presence of the winner of The Voice scheduled the next day, to perform two songs with the singer of On the flower of you. Upon hearing the news, the technicians therefore decided to go “in groups in the production office, at the Zénith in Dijon”to announce their refusal to work in the event of the presence of Slimane according to The Parisian.
A rant which prevented the arrival of the interpreter of Mon amour in Dijon. But the technicians would have once again expressed their anger upon learning of the planned arrival of the winner of The Voice at the Accor Arena this Wednesday, December 4: “We met and concluded that we were all opposed to the coming of Slimane”indicates a witness.
This time, it would be in front of Vitaa, her husband, and the tour director, that they would have expressed their dissatisfaction. The tour director would have spoken first: “he basically says that he is not minimizing the facts (attributed to Slimane) but that we should not mix everything up and penalize. He is quite measured.”
For its part, Vitaa would have made its teams feel guilty. “She doesn't understand that we are doing this to her when she has nothing to do with it. She sees it as a betrayal. And she says that Slimane is like her brother and that like in any family, we remain united even if We don't condone all the bullshit. The most scathing thing is Hicham who asks us to defend Slimane: 'who has never sent a photo of his dick, have we all raised our hands?'explains a witness.
They finally agree to officiate for the concert on December 4
Faced with this situation, the technicians would then have offered to find replacements for the scheduled date. As the days pass, a new meeting would have taken place last Sunday, after the Montpellier concert.
“At 11 p.m., after the show had been dismantled, Hicham announced to us that 'Slimane will come to Paris, that's how it is' and at the end of the tense discussion, seeing that we did not change our position, he threatened to cancel the tour”indicates one of them before revealing that the tour director would have, for his part, put “a lot of pressure” and would have them “threatened with legal action” if they refused to be at their post on December 4.
“We ended up agreeing to put on the show in Bercy, so as not to penalize the most vulnerable among usbut we feel guilty towards our friends who are victims of Slimane, with whom we stand in solidarity. This is why we decided to publicize our conflict, we who are usually extremely discreet.” explains experienced technician to Parisian. Our colleagues indicate that neither Play Two Live nor Indifférence Prod would have responded to their requests.
