While many mayors in France are calling on Patrick Bruel to no longer perform on stage during the investigation and Canada is canceling three performances by the singer, the Bellarena Indoor Festival in Friborg announced this Tuesday to “postpone” the French star’s concert which was scheduled for June 26.
Paléo has also just announced that it was banned from its stages following a complaint from a volunteer in 2019.
In this context – Bruel is the target of four complaints for rape in France and a judicial investigation for sexual assault in Belgium, without forgetting around thirty testimonies – many are awaiting the reaction of the organizers of the Pully Live Festival where the singer is due to perform on June 25.
Contacted by lematin.ch, Michel Marguerat, general director of the festival, has not yet taken a position. “Contextually, the Bellarena and the Pully Live Festival have different realities,” he writes to us. We had announced the artist’s arrival before Bellarena and the concert was sold out in a very short time.
And to continue: “We find ourselves today in a particularly complex situation, with firm contractual commitments as well as an important responsibility towards our thousands of festival-goers, our partners, our service providers and all the people – in particular the volunteers and our hard-working teams – involved in the festival.”
“This does not take away from the seriousness with which we are following the current evolution of this situation,” concludes Michel Marguerat.
