The singer is supposed to perform in La Rochelle on July 11. The NousToutes collective informed the Francofolies that Patrick Bruel was not welcome.
Two investigations concerning him had been opened, for facts dating from 2019. But “in the absence of any element making it possible to characterize a criminal offense”, the two investigations were closed without further action at the end of 2020. The collective also recalled the previous Orelsan, deprogrammed in 2009 “even though he was not the subject of any complaint for sexual assault, harassment or exhibition” This example “proves that deprogramming for subjects” linked to these types of violence “is possible” The singer did not react on his social networks. The movement mobilized against sexist and sexual violence rep for the singer in the 1990s and 2000s. The Charente-Maritime branch of the feminist movement published a letter addressed to the organization of the festival in order to oppose the singer's programming.