The LFI concert for the Music Festival was banned by the police headquarters, announces Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The free France Insoumise concert, supposed to be held on Sunday at Place de la République in Paris on the occasion of the Fête de la Musique, was banned by the police headquarters, announced Jean-Luc Mélenchon on X.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon affirms that the police chief decided to ban this concert “at the request of the president of Crif Yonathan Arfi and the PS mayor of the Paris Center district”, Ariel Weil.
In his eyes, “this last minute decision was taken under pressure from groups and individuals declaring themselves hostile to rebellious France”.
“We are appealing this decision before the judge,” adds the candidate for the 2027 presidential election.
“Risk of attracting a public hostile to the police”
In a decree published at the beginning of the evening, the prefect of police, Patrice Faure, justifies this ban by the arrival at this concert of personalities such as the Adama Committee and its founder Assa Traoré, as well as the rapper Médine. The prefect considers that the Adama Committee is calling for attacks on the police – he thus cites the slogan ‘everyone hates the police'” and criticizes the rapper for comments inciting hatred.
Patrice Faure argues that “this event risks attracting a public hostile to the police and giving rise to the dissemination of remarks calling for hatred, discrimination or violence against institutions”.
He also underlines that this concert takes place “in a very polarized political context (…) and that this context fuels the desire for confrontation”.
For his part, Manuel Bompard, national coordinator of France Insoumise, “solemnly warns of the dangers posed to the conduct of the next presidential election by this type of authoritarian practices which seek to exploit the problems of maintaining order for political purposes”.
He asks the Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, “to take the necessary measures to guarantee a free and fair presidential campaign”.
