The singer Izïa Higelin is the subject of an investigation, opened by the Nice prosecutor’s office, for “public provocation to commit a crime or an offense”. Evoking Emmanuel Macron during his concert Thursday evening in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, as part of the festival “Les nuits guitare”, the artist imagines how he could be publicly lynched by the spectators: “I know him, what a naughty one there, he said to himself, what would be good, I think what the people want, what the people want, is that they hang me 20 meters above the ground like a giant human piñata, and that we are all present here with huge bats with nails at the end like in ”Clockwork Orange”” (Mechanical Orange, editor’s note).
“I can already see the headlines: ‘Izïa calls for the murder of Macron'”
And the singer to continue, swaying, on a musical background, according to a video posted on the site and the TikTok account of the cultural magazine InOut Côte d’Azur: “And there, we would bring it down, but with all the grace and the kindness that the people of the South have, there right above you, and we would all have our bats with our little nails, and in a bengal fire of bonfire, of living flesh and blood, we would knock it down , but nicely you see…”.
“I already see the headline of Nice morning tomorrow: ” Izïa calls for the murder of Macron ”, would then have quipped the singer, according to the regional daily which returned to this concert in its columns on Saturday morning, evoking an unsuccessful attempt by the gendarmes to question her at the end of the show.