2023-07-11 18:23:52
During a concert in Beaulieu-sur-Mer (Alpes-Maritimes), Thursday July 6, the singer Izïa Higelin made a long protrusion against Emmanuel Macron in which she imagined his lynching by spectators equipped with “huge bats with nails at the end”, to end “in a Bengal fire of joy, of living flesh and blood, we would put him on the ground”. “In the history books, in 200 years, we will talk about it again,” she fantasized. “The revolution was created here […]we will be remembered”.
An investigation for “public provocation to commit a crime or misdemeanor” has been opened by the Nice prosecutor’s office. The newspaper West France, the singer said she was “very sorry that it was misinterpreted, decontextualized. Obviously, at no time did I want to incite violence or hatred. It’s a story, an improvised and surreal link between two titles that talk about everything and nothing and that should not be taken at face value”. His concert scheduled for the July 14 holiday in Marcq-en-Barœul was still canceled. Mayor Bernard Gérard (LR) considering that the coming of the artist “for a public, free and family concert would be in contradiction with the values of gathering which prevail during our National Day” and pointing to “remarks of great violence [qui l’ont] deeply shocked.”
On the networks, many have also noted the pedigree of the singer. “The heiress” of French rock pioneer Jacques Higelin, a time muse of the Chanel house, has thus been described as “nepo baby” – an acronym pejoratively designating the children of stars with privileged access to the very closed world of show business. Izïa Higelin also studied at the prestigious Alsatian school, the cradle of the Parisian elite, from which certain ministers and relatives of Macronie also came. And how to understand this sudden revolutionary inclination coming from the one who had sung at the wedding party of Bernard-Henri Levy’s daughter at the Café de Flore? In short, the pop star would be in no position to claim to know “what the people want”.
Classy radicalism
Is it only the ridiculousness of a rocker who wears her radicalism over the shoulder like an ostrich leather bag? We were able to mock the chic radicalism of actress Adèle Haenel, who attacked the “deadly bourgeoisie” and called for “overthrowing” the current “shitty world”. As well as the declarations of the director Justine Triet, winner of the Palme d’Or 2023, castigating the “neoliberal logic” of a power which would seek to “break the French cultural exception” they too, win a few smiles (n’ had she not omitted the CNC aid, the tax credits and the regional aid granted to the 7th art which she herself had benefited from?)
Still, Izïa Higelin’s CV cannot be a valid standard of the seriousness of her act, because that would amount to seeing it as an isolated case – the anecdotal gesticulations of a young artist in need of fights, to be relegated to the rank of slippages of a world of show business disconnected from reality.
Far from affecting only one generation, regulars at the Flore or the steps of Cannes, the artist’s outing is on the contrary terribly banal and consistent with the times. Her approach follows in the footsteps of certain political representatives, who, before her, made themselves the spokespersons for such speeches. When demonstrators against the pension reform had placed the head of a puppet bearing the effigy of the president at the end of a pike, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had thus defended “symbols” of the Revolution. After his temporary exclusion from the National Assembly for having posed crushing a balloon bearing the image of Minister Olivier Dussopt, the deputy of Nupes Thomas Portes had meanwhile assumed that he “will do it again
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