2023-04-30 12:08:56
After the cancellation of his concert in a desecrated church in Metz, singer Bilal Hassani finally decided to file a complaint against X for provocation to crime and discrimination and for harassment.
While he was to perform in Metz on April 5, in a desecrated church that has since become a concert hall, Bilal Hassani had been the subject of hostile messages on social networks. The singer, figure of the LGBTQIA + community, had been forced to cancel the performance.
Almost a month after the events, his lawyers announced that they had filed a complaint on Friday April 28, for “public and direct provocation to commit a crime or misdemeanour”, “provocation to discrimination, hatred or violence “, “threat and harassment” with the prosecutor of Metz.
“It’s a simple complaint against X to which we have attached all the identifying information on which we want the investigators to focus,” said the singer’s lawyers, My Isabelle Wekstein and Clara Steg. “We have identified individuals or identity groups who sent hateful messages, even after the cancellation of the concert, towards our client”, they added, claiming to carry out “ant work” by peeling the social networks.
Bilal Hassani had indeed been the target of religious groups who did not accept that he performed in a church that had been desecrated for 500 years. The Lorraine Catholic collective had evoked a “profanation” of the place, and judged that the holding of this concert in the middle of Holy Week for Catholics was a provocation. Supported by Civitas, the collective had called to “come and pray the rosary” before the concert, in front of the old church.
The young singer had then received thousands of hateful messages on social networks, and had been the target of threats. For security reasons, both for Bilal Hassani and his audience, the tour producer had decided to cancel the concert.
On April 6, the Metz public prosecutor’s office had initiated an investigation against X on the counts of “threats of offence” and “incitement to hatred or violence against a person because of sexual orientation” and of “public and direct provocation without effect to commit a crime or misdemeanour”. Two associations, Stop Homophobia and Mousse, have also filed a complaint against Civitas.
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