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After the strong protests, Bilal Hassani says he is “tired” by this kind of homophobic behavior. The Stop Homophobia and Mousse associations have filed a complaint.
The Metz prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation against X following the cancellation of the concert by Bilal Hassani, a claimed standard-bearer for the LGBT + community, the prosecutor’s office told AFP on Thursday. This investigation was opened for ‘threat of offense against persons because of their sexual orientation, incitement to hatred or violence against a person because of sexual orientation and unenforced direct and public provocation to commit a crime or offense”said the deputy public prosecutor, Thomas Bernard, indicating that the Departmental Security is seized of these facts.
Opposed to the Bilal Hassani concert, the Lorraine Catholique collective had shouted at the “desecration”, in the middle of Holy Week, in a message on his widely relayed blog. Supported by Civitas, he called for a prayer of reparation before the concert, in front of the old church, desecrated for 500 years.
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Due to the threats made against the artist and his public, Live Nation, producer of Bilal Hassani’s tour, had finally decided “with regret, sadness and spite”, to cancel the show which was to be held in the former Saint-Pierre-Aux-Nonnains church, now a performance hall. In this case, the Stop Homophobia and Mousse associations have also filed a complaint against Civitas with the Metz prosecutor’s office for discrimination on the basis of gender identity, their lawyer, Me Étienne Deshoulières, said on Wednesday.