The Paris police prefect requires the postponement of the evening under penalty of ban

Police Prefect Laurent Nuñez asked the concert organizers on Thursday Solidarity Congo Scheduled in Paris on April 7, International Day for Commemoration of the Rwanda genocide, to postpone it to another date, noticing that default, it will prohibit it. In a message posted on social networks, Laurent Nuñez explains that he will launch the procedure for prohibition “Having regard to the risks of public order disorders” that would constitute the maintenance of this concert on April 7.

Rwandan associations have been asking for the postponement of this concert for several weeks to the Accor Arena de Bercy for the benefit of children victims of the eastern conflict of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in view of the symbolic charge of April 7. In a letter dated March 10, but made public only on Tuesday, the city of Paris had asked the prefect to ban this concert on April 7. The day before, the organizers had announced the maintenance of this “Essential event” Where are the big names of rap like Gims, Youssoupha or Gazo are expected.

UNICEF is dissociated from the event

For 30 years, the eastern DRC, a region rich in natural and border resources in Rwanda, has been ravaged by deadly violence involving a myriad of armed groups and certain neighboring countries. These violence recently intensified in favor of the flash offensive led by the M23 armed group, supported by Rwandan troops. According to the UN, more than 100,000 people have fled the area over the past three months. This conflict draws its roots from the genocide of the Tutsis in 1994, the flight of hundreds of thousands of Hutus, including many genocidaires, in the DRC and the wars that have entered. UNICEF, the UN Child Protection Agency to be donated the revenues, has dissociated itself from the event, judging « impossible » to benefit from a charity concert organized during the genocide commemoration day which left at least 800,000 dead, mainly Tutsi.