Holy Nakamura: Research into racist posts for singer who may sing at the opening of the Olympic Games

Research was initiated by the French authorities following the complaint made by the Licra organization by referring to racist publications against it of origin from France and Mali Ayia Nakamura. Nakamura may sing at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in The 28-year-old singer has been branded by the far right and has received many racist attacks after the announcement, in late February, by the L’Express newspaper, of her possible participation in the July 26th ceremony in Paris, during which she could perform Edith Piaf songs. This possible participation has not yet been formalized by either the singer or the organizers of the Games or by Elize. The investigation, initiated after receiving on 13 March the report of Licra “who denounced racist publications against Ayia Nakamura”, was undertaken by the National Team in the Battle against Online Hate (Pôle national de lutte contre la haine en ligne- PNLH), clarified the prosecution. Today the SOS Racisme organization announced, in a press release, that it resorted in turn to justice, denouncing “waves of racist hatred against Ayia Nakamura”, as an example of the republished last weekend on social media of a Les Natifs team banner, which wrote: “No way, Ayah. This is Paris, not the Bamako market”. “The aim of this message was to confirm that Ayia Nakamura, despite being a French artist, has no legitimacy in representing France, referring to the origins of the artist from Mali for whom she is apparently deemed to be excluded in the eyes of the far right,” SoS Racisme denounced. The artist reacted to this message by posting it on social media: “You can be racist but not deaf… That hurts! I’m the number one issue in public debate, but what exactly do I owe you? Nothing”. In front of repeated attacks on the world’s most heard French singer after her song “Djadja”, Culture Minister Rashida Dati warned on Tuesday about the “pretenses in order to attack someone from pure racism”. “To attack an artist for what is, is unacceptable, is a criminal act,” he stressed. Ayia Nakamura, one of RnB’s most important representatives in France, was released last year in order of “DNK”.