Along with her turntables, Barbara Butch was in a position to make her viewers dance on Saturday night in Yonne. A week after the interruption of his concert in Grenoble by pro-Palestinian activists, the Jewish and queer DJ returned to the stage throughout a mini-festival.
“I’m completely satisfied to be right here,” this fixture of Parisian LGBTQ+ nights, frequently the goal of assaults since she was one of many faces of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Video games in 2024, advised the group of some 400 individuals.
A grievance towards LFI
His live performance on Saturday July 18, the goal of a name for a boycott, particularly from the Grenoble department of La France insoumise, was interrupted by “throws of projectiles”, in response to the Grenoble city corridor which introduced it was submitting a grievance. Barbara Butch, lesbian and overweight musician frequently sufferer of homophobia and fatphobia, promised a complaint against La France insoumiseparticularly for frightening hatred and violence.
Professional-Palestinian activists criticize the DJ for having signed a column in favor of the Yadan billwhich aimed to “struggle towards new types of anti-Semitism”, contested and since withdrawn.
A powerful police presence
Saturday night, within the village of Saint-Martin-du-Tertre, the artist’s present was additionally the goal of a name for a boycott from the native department of LFI, however with none motion deliberate. The DJ was due to this fact in a position to seize the decks in entrance of a received over viewers as a part of this very native mini-festival. This was his final scheduled date this summer time.
“With the intention to assure the security and freedom of the artist and our viewers, the safety system has been actually strengthened,” Fabrice Paris, president of the Le Hameau affiliation, organizer of the occasion, indicated earlier than the present.
The robust police presence across the stage contrasted with the good-natured and household ambiance of the pageant, made up of barbecued sausages eaten on picnic tables by the river, and dancers having a blast in entrance of the rostrum the place the DJ was mixing. No signal of protest appeared. Quite the opposite, spectators brandished posters marked “Barbara, we love you”, signed by the Union of Jewish College students of France (UEJF).
