“Everything is chaos, next to…” Nevermore, Mylène Farmer’s tour, was to stop this Friday and Saturday at the Stade de France (Seine-Saint-Denis). The information fell this Friday, in the middle of the afternoon, confirmed at 20 minutes by a source close to the government: the two concerts are cancelled.
The decision was taken by the interministerial crisis unit at the request of elected officials from Seine-Saint Denis. Many municipalities in the department were affected by the violence that occurred in response to the death of young Nahel, killed on Tuesday by the shooting of a policeman, in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine).
The cancellation of these two concerts must “allow the police to deploy elsewhere in order to deal with the riots”, announced the prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis.
” It’s a nightmare “
Several hundred fans, who had bought their tickets two years ago, were already around the Stade de France, which was to open its gates at 6 p.m., when they heard the news. Some even camped for several nights in front of the enclosure in order to have the best place in the pit.
“It’s a joke, it’s a nightmare,” confided, incredulous and annoyed, in his Instagram story, a fan who arrived at dawn in front of the stadium. “There are tears, cries, insults, anger in the air, the atmosphere is tense. It is a suspended moment, ”he then described.
Mylène Farmer launched Nevermore, his 13-date tour, on June 3 at the Pierre-Mauroy stadium in Lille (Hauts-de-France). It is supposed to end on July 29 at the Allianz Riviera in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes). For the moment, the production has not yet communicated officially on a possible postponement of the two concerts at the Stade de France.