After the wax statue of the Grévin museum, the shows.
In Moselle, the town of Fameck, about fifteen kilometers north of Metz, took the decision to deprogram
They love each other
, a play co-written in 1996 by Pierre Palmade and Muriel Robin.
The comedy which was to be played on March 10 in the Victor Hugo room, in the center of Fameck, was canceled following the double case of child pornography and road accident which earned the comedian an indictment for homicide and unintentional injuries.
“We said to ourselves that, during the evening, it might be difficult for the spectators to applaud when the author of the play was introduced at the end; and then it could cause controversy in the population”,
was justified on Saturday, for BFMTV the mayor of Fameck, Michel Liebgott (PS).
“We also have people here who sell narcotics.
We cannot have doublespeak and fight them on the pitch while, on the other side, indirectly, publicizing someone who, unfortunately, has behaved in a criminal way”.
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The municipality thus replaced its Palmadian show on March 10 with a performance of Les
Colocs
, a boulevard play co-written in 2003 by Patrick Hernandez, Jean Heredia and Robert Punzano.
On the Facebook page of the city of Fameck, Internet users seemed to be divided on Sunday about the decision taken by the town hall.
A tour of uncertainty
While some welcomed the initiative, others were sorry for a choice deemed arbitrary.
“The actors have nothing to do with this story, and this play does not promote drugs that I know of
,” one person lamented.
Michel Liebgott nevertheless affirmed that the piece by Pierre Palmade will
“certainly”
return one day to the town.
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Mounted by the company A tes rêves productions, the play
They love each other
is still scheduled for the last date of its tour, April 9, in Montargis.
“The Palmade affair disgusts me to the highest degree, but I am not a censor, I have no reason to do so”, clarified Friday
the mayor of Montargis Benoit Digeon (LR) to our colleagues from
La République du Center
.
The chosen one, however, does not rule out an upcoming cancellation of the show.
“
We will look into the question with my municipal team on Monday
, specifies Benoit Digeon.
In my opinion, the producers of this show are going to do it on their own.
»
Assigned to residence in the addiction service of the Paul-Brousse hospital since his indictment, Pierre Palmade suffered a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) on Saturday evening.
He would have since been transferred to the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital.
The serious accident of February 10, for which the actor was responsible, occurred while he was under the influence of cocaine.
The collision left three seriously injured in the same family: a 38-year-old man, his six-year-old son and his 27-year-old pregnant sister-in-law, who lost the baby she was expecting.
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