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Akhenaton "disillusioned" after the cancellation of the IAM concert-test in Marseille

2021-05-14T11:06:28.582Z


Asked about France Info, the rapper blasted a political decision without the slightest scientific basis, while the experience will take place in Paris and Montpellier.


"We were very disappointed."

While Roselyne Bachelot announced, Wednesday, May 12, the holding of test concerts in Paris and Montpellier, the Minister of Culture nevertheless declared that the experiment will not take place in Marseille.

What to annoy the leader of the IAM group, who was to perform there.

Asked about France Info, Thursday, May 13, Akhenaton praised

"the work of scientists and associations who have been working for many months to try to make this concert-test"

.

Read also: Covid-19: how will the Bercy test concert on May 29 unfold?

"The Marseille project is also interesting from a scientific point of view but was not selected because of risks linked to the health protocols proposed"

, explained Roselyne Bachelot in the Committee for Culture, Education and Communication at the Senate. .

"Fortunately, one of the scientists at the initiative of the project is our neighbor, otherwise we would have learned about it through the press in a very classy way, but we are starting to get used to this government"

, cracked the rapper, he and the members of IAM having

"been very disappointed"

by the news.

His thoughts went to scientists and associations

"who had been working for many months to try to do this test concert"

, planned, he said,

"well before the one that was offered in Paris and which is authorized

" .

The rapper however refrained from fueling the eternal rivalry

"Paris against Marseille"

.

“We're not in that at all.

On the contrary, if our friends in Paris manage to do it, so much the better for them.

But we have questions.

Why is it not allowed?

Why do we always wait until the last minute? ”

Read also: The organization of Test Concerts stirs up envy

Concert without Covid test at the entrance

Akhenaton also says he does not understand the health argument put forward by Roselyne Bachelot, while Marseille wanted to set up an event without a Covid test at the entrance.

“I think that would have made it possible to make people understand that concert halls do not contaminate more than the metro, than the crowded TGV, than planes. And it is always, each time the culture, the music in general which is always always targeted. We work in a vacuum, we no longer have any prospects, ”

he lamented.

Contrary to the criticisms made over the past year to the government and to the scientific council, Akhenaton declares,

"that in the whole of this crisis, the politicians have more weight than the scientists"

, while the scientists of the National Institute from health and medical research (Inserm) were

"100%"

in favor of the project.

“They went up rapids to try to put on that concert. We're not doing really dangerous stuff, we're doing a test concert with 1,000 people under certain conditions. Arms fall to me, I am deeply disillusioned. This test concert is the stone that comes to rest on the disillusions I have about humanity in general. ”

Read also: Rapper Akhenaton furious with the government after the cancellation of an IAM concert

After this snub from the Ministry of Culture, the project partners, including Marseille hospitals (AP-HM), Aix-Marseille University, marine firefighters and certain cultural players, are considering

"to develop the project as well as its calendar so as not to lose the fruit of all the work undertaken ”

for six months, they wrote in a letter addressed to AFP.

Source: lefigaro

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