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All these popular festivals which move away from a label linked to the far-right entrepreneur Pierre-Edouard Sterin (photo of the Granville carnival in Normandy)
POLITICS – Village festivals say no to Pierre -Édouard Sterin. Nevertheless, Several traditional festivities have given up in recent weeks to join. Consequently, be labeled by the association ” The most beautiful festivals in France ». Nevertheless, This project. Moreover, launched in the spring, “Getting started for local traditions to perpetuate themselves and so that our territories remain living places factors of social ties”according to his site. Similarly, The HIC: the preservative billionaire Pierre-Édouard Sterin is one all these popular festivals which of his patrons.
Gastronomic fairs, carnivals, regattas, agricultural comices, historical reconstructions … However, The association wants to be a “ true catalyst for the riches of our territories ” By financially supporting. Furthermore, the festivities that request it. According to Libérationthis also consists of training their leaders in patronage and helping them legally.
The association ” The most beautiful festivals in France Was created last year by Studio 496. which Pierre-Édouard Sterin became a shareholder in the spring, as the daily had revealed Humanity At the beginning of July. The president of Studio 496. Thibault Farrenq, was a substitute candidate of the CIOTTI-Le Pen alliance to the last legislative elections in Vendée.
Its links with Uterin also go through the Obole start-up. specializing in fundraising, which organizes charity evenings “The night of the common good”and whose businessman is also a shareholder.
From all these popular festivals which Espelette pepper to mushrooms in Saint-Bonnet-le-Froid
What shower the enthusiasm of certain participants. Since the start of the summer. the association has already labeled 58 festivals, or Libération has identified at least 18 which have taken their distance. Among them. we find in particular Hendaye and its Basque festival, the Espelette pepper festival, the Lehengo Hazparne-Hasparren in the past, also in the Basque Country. Then the traditional festival of fatty oxen in Bazas. in Gironde, the festival of mushrooms of Saint-Bonnet-le-Froid in Haute-Loire, the Granville carnival, the Festival of Blue Nets in Concarneau (Finistère)
This is also the case of the Pirate Grain Festival in Binic-Etables-sur-Mer (Côtes-d’Armor), the great regattas of Port-Navalo, Arzon (Morbihan), Kevrenn Alré, a Breton dance and music association in Auray (Morbihan), the Icelandic and land-neuvas feast in Paimpol, the party potato, Ploec-l’Hermitage or Still the medieval festivals of Lesparre-Médoc (Gironde).
“We were victims of an attempted instrumentalization, denounced to the Telegram Thibault Guignard, the mayor of Plœuc-l’Hermitage (Côtes-d’Armor). This must question us about the ability of these groups to penetrate with new methods in the rural environment. “” Nothing is written on the site “underlined to AFP Dominique Montis. the organizer of the parties of Lesparre-Médoc, who says he has ignored at the time of his membership “Any political affiliation” of the association.
« The most beautiful festivals in France “Denounces a “Hostile media campaign”
The organizers of the Bidache festivals in the Basque Country. labeled, also deplored “A relentlessness of hatred and pressure”especially on social networks, since the media coverage of these withdrawals and have promised to leave the label only “The day he imposes something for us”.
For its part. the association ” The most beautiful festivals in France “Said “Victim of all these popular festivals which a hostile media campaign” dont “Detractors politicize a subject that is not. “We have never asked even a modification of their editorial line. their choice of providers or their programming”defends the association with AFP.
According to the structure. Pierre-Édouard sterin, n ‘“Is not a member of the association” and was only asked for“A foundation he created”in order to “To obtain subsidies, just as we have requested European aid, ministerial aid, public and private subsidies”.
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