“Life goes on without me, tell me why I was there”: it was with these rhymes that Calogero told in his song in 2014 One day in the wrong place the double murder of Kevin and Sofiane, which occurred two years earlier in Echirolles (Isère). On September 17, while in Vaucluse for a concert, the singer returned to the dolphin released about this piece and about the barbaric news that inspired it.
“I will never understand what happened ten years ago, this sudden conflagration,” the singer declares. “To me, that is cowardice. Where is the so-called courage when you turn fifteen for revenge?”
And to ask about our society’s relationship with violence: “Do you want to know what remains of all this ten years later? Honestly, I don’t know. Unfortunately, my song is still relevant. I’m afraid there is a kind of trivialization of violence”, he declares, comparing his youth in Echirolles with today:
“There were no lynchings. There were fights, he was such a guy that he met at five after school (…) and at some point when he was too much, we separated them ”.
The murder of the two young people, aged 21 and 22, had aroused great emotion in this city on the outskirts of Grenoble, where the artist is from. as reported Release at that time, Kevin and Sofiane were victims of a punitive expedition led by fifteen armed youths following a dispute. The blows of the hammer, glass bottle and knives rained down, until the death of the two boys.
In November and December 2015, twelve defendants, aged between 19 and 24, appeared behind closed doors, including two minors at the time of the events. Ten had been sentenced to sentences of 8 to 20 years in prison and two acquitted.
“Extremely shocked” by the case, calogero He quickly made a song out of it, written four-handed with his partner Marie Bastide. always close to the Dauphine Liberesays that he submitted this title to the approval of the families of the victims before integrating it into his sixth album, Fireworks: “If they hadn’t agreed, I would have given up.”
Source: BFM TV
