Overview
- Audience members interrupted the Philharmonie de Paris performance three times, twice using smoke flares, leading to scuffles before the concert resumed each time.
- The Paris prosecutor said three women and one man were taken into custody, with the man accused of organizing an unauthorized demonstration.
- The Philharmonie filed a criminal complaint, describing the events as serious incidents and condemning the actions in a formal statement.
- Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez denounced the disturbances as unjustifiable, and Israel’s ambassador in Paris, Joshua Zarka, criticized what he called political instrumentalization of the conflict.
- Activists and the CGT-Spectacle union had urged cancellation and heightened security preceded the event, which featured conductor Lahav Shani, who has faced prior protests and is set to lead the Munich Philharmonic in 2026.