The RN continues to make known its opposition to the plan to blackmail Aya Nakamura during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games. “When we have been convicted of domestic violence, we cannot represent France,” said Jordan Bardella on Wednesday.
R’n’B-pop star Aya Nakamura and her ex-spouse, Vladimir Boudnikoff, were respectively fined 10,000 and 5,000 euros on February 23 for violence against their spouse dating from August 2022 by the court Bobigny Correctional Facility. Aya Nakamura did not appeal.
Le Pen criticizes “an additional provocation” from Macron
The name of the singer comes up insistently to participate in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, in particular to perform a song by Edith Piaf, to the great dismay of the far right and the ultra right, who criticize this idea. “It’s not a nice symbol, honestly, it’s an additional provocation from Emmanuel Macron who has to get up every morning saying ‘Hey, how am I going to succeed in humiliating the French people?’ », declared Marine Le Pen last week on France Inter.
Jordan Bardella, head of the European list, for his part considered Wednesday on France 5 that, “when we have been convicted of domestic violence, we cannot represent France in a sporting event which requires unity, appeasement and the gathering”, specifying that it was his “personal conviction”.
“I think that we could perhaps have, given the lives of the French, chosen a more consensual artist,” added the president of the RN, citing an Odoxa survey carried out a fortnight ago in which only 35 % of those questioned considered that the singer’s participation in the Olympics was a “good idea” (a “bad idea” for 63%), although 64% of respondents recognized that she was a “popular” artist .
An international star
The most listened to French-speaking singer in the world, the Franco-Malian star born in Bamako 28 years ago and who grew up in Aulnay-sous-Bois, in Seine-Saint-Denis, experienced her first global success with her hit Djadja in 2018. Aya Nakamura, who released her fourth album last year DNK, has since played in the big leagues. At the end of 2022, she delivered an interactive show in Fortnitea video game blockbuster fond of this kind of collaborations, a type of gateway reserved for global megastars like the American rapper Travis Scott or the Brazilian soccer star Neymar.