Repercussions and unfortunate consequences. This Wednesday, December 4, 2024, Vitaa will be at the Accor Arena in Paris to continue its tour started last October. If the performance halls are not full, the atmosphere behind the scenes is very heavy, according to technicians, who confided in our colleagues at Parisian. Indeed, the latter refuse to see Slimane, the singer's great friend, who is supposed to perform with her at the Accor Arena.
As a reminder, the singer is accused of assault and sexual harassment by two of his own technicians: “We signed for Vitaa, not for Slimane. Our job is to put an artist on stage on a pedestal and we don't want to put a guy on a pedestal who is the target of two complaints for sexual assault and sexual harassment, what's more, submitted by colleagues, sometimes friends. Of course, Slimane benefits from the presumption of innocence, but we know the artist and the atmosphere on his tours. Out of the question to work for him”, blurted one of them.
Vitaa fails to understand the decision of its own technicians
For the technicians of the Vitaa tour, the presence of Slimane is simply unthinkable. But for the singer's turner, the presence of the artist was planned: “He basically says that he is not minimizing the facts (attributed to Slimane) but that we should not mix everything up and penalize Vitaa. He is quite measured”, says one of them.
And it seems that Vitaa, too, wants to see his friend on stage: “Charlotte (Vitaa's real first name) makes us feel guilty. She doesn't understand why we're doing this to her when she had nothing to do with it.” According to her teams, the singer “experiences it as a betrayal. 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.”
“We are being threatened”
The technicians then wish to exercise their right of withdrawal: “We met and concluded that we were all opposed to the coming of Slimane”. But the tone quickly rises, particularly when Marc Daniel, the production director of Play Two, a subsidiary of the TF1 group, calls the technicians to tell them “a lot of pressure” and the “threaten legal action” if they don't work Wednesday.
“In principle, we should be able to exercise our right of withdrawal, but we are being threatened and we are worried about the repercussions. We all have different statuses and professions, some are self-employed and work a lot with Play Two Live. They are afraid of losing their contracts.”
