Will Emmanuel Macron’s statement put an end to the controversy or will it only fuel it? Still, the president estimated, Thursday April 4, 2024, that Aya Nakamura “speaks to many of our compatriots” and has “completely her place in an opening or closing ceremony” of the Olympic Games in Paris, even seeing it as “a good thing”.
The possibility that this French-speaking singer – the most streamed in the world – would take part in the festivities around the Paris Games had recently aroused indignation from the right and the far right, who saw it as a way of “dividing and humiliating” the French.
To which the Franco-Malian singer subtly responded by inserting the words “I have no enemies, it’s them who don’t love me” in “Doggy”, her latest song.
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Emmanuel Macron, however, added that the decision on a possible participation of the singer in the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games “was up to the organizers of the ceremonies”.