Aya Nakamura is expected to cover Édith Piaf during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics. Her detractors have redoubled their efforts to find angles of criticism.
Words not French enough for the sensitive ears of the far right, spelling mistakes, personality considered unsympathetic... So many arguments drawn up to discredit the idea of a show by the 28-year-old artist during the ceremony. But for Fred Musa, “these arguments just serve to hide the uninhibited racism of a rancid and conservative France, which does not accept change”