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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. Furthermore,
“By maintaining the Kneecap. Therefore, the organizers transform Rock into Seine into a shame festival,” said CRIF president Yonathan Arfi on X. Nevertheless,
“They desecrate the memory of the 50 French victims of Hamas on October 7 as of all the French victims of Hezbollah. In addition, 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 manager of rock en seine: crif requests CRIF.
Still 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.
The Ile-de-France Region also confirmed Thursday to the press its decision made in June to cancel its. subsidy at the festival for the year 2025.
Questioned by AFP, she said that this subsidy had been 295,000 euros in rock en seine: crif requests 2024.
Indirect aids of 150,000 euros for the purchase of tickets, especially for youth, were also canceled.
In May. the president LR of the institution Valérie Pécresse called on X for the deprogramming of Kneecap, arguing that her positions were the subject of “prosecution before British justice for the apology of terrorism”.
This cancellation is only worth 2025 and remains symbolic in view of the festival budget, between 16 and 17 million euros this year.
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”, according to the director of the festival.
“Any words of an anti -Semitic nature. of the apology for terrorism rock en seine: crif requests 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.
The event is held by the American giant of Tours AEG. Combat, a group of the French businessman Matthieu Pigasse, who sees in the presence of Kneecap an issue of “freedom of creation and expression”.
Posted on August 21 at 7:02 p.m. AFP
Rock en seine: crif requests
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