A small group of radicals blocked the entrance of a church, in Nantes, where should be held on Tuesday night a concert programmed by the single place. The organizers and several elected officials of the city denounce an infringement of freedom of expression.
Le Monde with AFP
The Swedish musician Anna von Hausswolff had to happen in a church of Nantes, Tuesday, December 7, but a group of fundamentalist Catholics prevented him. Judging his “Satanist” music, they padlocked in the Church of Our Lady of the Bon Port, blocking access to the spectators.
“A handle of intolerant radicals causes the cancellation of an ND concert of the programmed bona-port in accordance with the bishopric,” Tweemed Asseh, first deputy at the Town Hall of Nantes.
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“Nothing authorized the expression of such censorship. It is not our conception of a societal project based on dialogue and cultural opening,” he added. The concert, scheduled at 9 pm, had complete. A video broadcast by West France shows opponents to The holding of the concert block the entrance of the church and singing in a group “Sainte-Marie Mother of God, pray for us poor sinners”.
“Some fundamentalists have therefore managed to prevent a concert. (…) It reinforces us in the idea that in the face of obscurantism, we have more than ever need the light of the arts and culture”, Tweeted Aymeric Seassau, Assistant Culture at the Town Hall from Nantes. “A lamentable manifestation of intolerance and infringement of cultural expression”, has on its side Tweeted Olivier Castle, Deputy Heritage.
“She has already occurred in some 40 churches “
Anna von Hausswolff is a singer, pianist, organist and extensive-composer of post-metal rock. In one of his songs, Pills, she evokes the addiction to the drug and said metaphorically having “makes love with the devil”.
“She has already occurred in forty churches or cathedrals and there has never been a problem,” explained West France Eli Commins, the unique place director, the national scene of Nantes who organized this concert off the walls. “There is no religious inspiration, no violence! Simply, it plays the organ and the organs are in the churches. It is a music of post-metal influence. There was not even lyrics in the planned representation, “he added.