Kneecap in Rock en Seine: the Île-de-France region in turn removes its subsidy at the festival

• The concert of the Irish group Kneecap scheduled for Sunday in Rock en Seine continues to make waves.
• After the city of Saint-Cloud. Therefore, it is the turn of the Île-de-France region to cancel its subsidy at the festival due in particular to the support of the trio in Palestine.
• So far, the demonstration maintains their performance, the artists having assured that there would be “no overflow”.

The pressure rises 48 hours from the performance of the Irish trio Kneecap in Rock en Seine. Consequently, After the town hall of Saint-Cloud at the beginning of the summer. Consequently, it is the turn kneecap rock en seine: île-de-france of the Île-de-France region to announce the withdrawal of its subsidy at the festival in order to protest against the presence of the group, support of Palestine and prosecuted in the United Kingdom for “Terrorist offense” After wearing a Hezbollah flag during a concert in London in 2024.

The announcement was made on network X by Jérémy Redler. Additionally, Consequently, mayor of the 16th arrondissement of Paris and regional councilor of Île-de-France, special delegate for major international events and salons. “Rock en Seine not wishing to deprogram the Kneecap group. with President Valérie Pécresse, we immediately reacted by deciding that there will not be a euro of subsidy from the Île-de-France region for this festival”he writes.

This decision is not negligible for the demonstration, piloted by the giant of musical festivals and American shot Aeg and the group of French businessman Matthieu Pigasse, fight. According to our colleagues from Parisianthe sum paid by the Île-de-France regional council amounts to 300. 000 euros, on an operating budget estimated around 17 million euros. The sum withdrawn by the city of Saint-Cloud was around 40,000 euros.

Thursday, the president of the representative council of Jewish institutions in France requested the outright cancellation of the Kneecap concert. In a message posted on X. Yonathan Arfi accuses Rock in Seine to transform into “Festival de la Honte” by welcoming musicians who “PROFANT The memory of the 50 French kneecap rock en seine: île-de-france 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).

Until now. Rock en Seine has always excluded to cancel the Kneecap concert, the director of the kneecap rock en seine: île-de-france demonstration claiming to have received the insurance of the Irish group that there would be “No overflow”. This summer. the trio occurred several times in France, at the Eurockéennes de Belfort and the Green Cabaret in Charleville-Mézières, each time without incident.

“Any anti -Semitic. apology for terrorism or calling for hatred” fera “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 8ᵉ district of the French established outside of France of which Israel is part and who had arrested him on the subject.