A recipe that works is not changed: little more than a week after making people talk about him copiously insulting Emmanuel Macron on the stage of the Touquet Music Beach Festival, the Franco-American musician Marc Rebillet reiterated this Monday night, this time in the Olympia.
According to a journalist from Parisian Present in the room, the artist began his show by asking the spectators what song they wanted to hear. The latter demanded “Macron enc ***”, the phrase chanted by the DJ at Le Touquet on August 27, and the DJ agreed to his request.
King of improvisation, used to unconventional performances, Marc Rebillet saw his career explode during confinement, when his “quarantine streams” in a bathrobe attracted hundreds of thousands of subscribers on YouTube.
political outrage
Present at Le Touquet the night of Marc Rebillet’s performance, Emmanuel Macron arrived at the festival after the artist’s visit and therefore did not hear these insults. But they resonated within the political class: the mayor of Le Touquet Daniel Fasquelle estimated that “between the provocation and the gratuitous insult, there is a leap that has been made […] by this artist.
At the microphone of our RMC colleagues, the deputy for the 4th district of Pas-de-Calais (of which Le Touquet is a part) Philippe Fait said that he was “outraged by the behavior of the artist Marc Rebillet towards President Emmanuel Macron”. , and the LFI-Nupes deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis Clémentine Autain condemned these statements.
The festival’s own management denounced a “hostage taking” of the artist to “create rumor”. “The festival was very unhappy. They cut my sound and now they ask me for a refund. […] because they didn’t like what I said,” the artist posted on Instagram.
Source: BFM TV
