Overview
- The performance at the Philharmonie de Paris was interrupted three times, including two uses of smoke flares, before the concert continued after the disruptors were expelled.
- Police took four people into custody at the venue, and the Philharmonie filed a complaint following what it described as serious incidents.
- France’s interior minister, Laurent Nuñez, condemned the disturbances, saying nothing could justify them.
- Israel’s ambassador in Paris, Joshua Zarka, criticized what he called the instrumentalization of a terrible conflict for political purposes.
- In the days before the event, activists urged cancellation and the CGT-Spectacle union sought audience warnings about Gaza-related allegations, security was tightened, and conductor Lahav Shani’s past run-ins included a Flanders festival disinvitation later condemned by Germany’s chancellor as antisemitic.