“Come on, switch to our side”.
These words sung by IAM in
The Empire of the Dark Side
have a particular resonance today, as the Marseille rap group takes a stand against the health pass and the vaccine obligation.
“With the IAM group, we are against the health pass, against compulsory vaccination. Our freedoms and especially the future of our children are at
stake,
”
says Akhenaton, leader of the group, in a video posted on his Twitter account and relayed by that of IAM.
The rest of Akhenaton's declaration is a series of anti-ax clichés.
"We would like people who have so little self-confidence in the medical profession to finally speak up, that journalists who have been going one way for a year and a half now and who have another view also express it.
Unfortunately, these laws are dangerous for everyone.
It is together that we will find solutions.
Long live life, long live love, long live humanity,
”continues the Marseille rapper in this somewhat muddled speech.
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This position is hardly surprising when we know that Akhenaton is a
long-standing “covid-skeptic”
.
"I doubt the real dangerousness of this virus"
, declared Philippe Fragione, of his real name, in August 2020.
"The doctors who are on television who for months have been giving lessons to very great infectious disease doctors are things that worry me a little ”
, underlines Akhenaton, without doubt alluding to another famous Marseillais, Didier Raoult.
Remember that the virus, in its various variants, has killed more than 111,000 people in France.
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The rapper, who does not seem to be a contradiction near, had nevertheless deplored in May, after the cancellation of the concert-test of his group,
"that in the whole of this crisis, the politician [has ] more weight than scientists ”.
IAM's distancing from science is clear this time. What disappoint many Internet users, nostalgic for the much more glorious era of the tube
Petit Frère.