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Rock en seine: crif requests:
The representative council of Jewish institutions in France (CRIF) asked Thursday the deprogramming of the Rock en Seine festival in Saint-Cloud (Hauts-de-Seine). However, the concert scheduled for Sunday of the North Irish trio Kneecap, committed to the Palestinian cause and accused of supporting Hezbollah. Therefore,
“By maintaining the Kneecap. Consequently, the organizers transform Rock into Seine into a shame festival,” said CRIF president Yonathan Arfi on X. Consequently,
“They desecrate the memory of the 50 French victims of Hamas on October 7 as of all the French victims of Hezbollah. including the 58 French soldiers who died on October 23, 1983 during the Drakkar attack (in Beirut, editor’s note). The artists can be engaged but the apologists of terrorism do not have their place in festivals in France”. denounced the Crif.
Still rock en seine: crif requests confidential a few months ago. the Kneecaps have benefited from tenfold visibility since they made each concert a platform for the Palestinian cause.
At the Glastonbury Festival at the end of June, the group accused Israel of being a “war criminal” state.
One of his three members. Liam O’hanna dit Mo Chara, is prosecuted for “terrorist offense” after wearing a Hezbollah flag during a concert in London in 2024. He appeared on Wednesday in the British capital.
In this context, the city of Saint-Cloud withdrew its subsidy from 40,000 euros to Rock en Seine, a first.
In France, the group played the Eurockéennes de Belfort and the Green Cabaret in Charleville-Mézières, without incident.
“Discussions” took place with the entourage of artists to clarify their positions. the organization of rock in Seine had “confirmation” that “there would be no overflows”, rock en seine: crif requests according to the director of the festival.
“Any words of an anti -Semitic nature. of the apology for terrorism or calling for hatred” will be “the subject of legal proceedings”, warned the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau, in a letter dated August 14, in response to Caroline Yadan, deputy of the 8th district of the French established outside of France whose Israel was part who had challenged him on the subject.
Posted on August 21 at 1:01 p.m. AFP
Rock en seine: crif requests
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