Overview

• La Motte-du-Caire’s mayor Jérôme Francou and festival committee president Jean-Louis Recrosio jointly canceled Sébastien’s August 20 concert after rejecting the onstage gesture.
• The scheduled August 8 performance at the Humour et danse festival in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin was also withdrawn, with organizer Chantal Martino attributing the decision to technical and logistical hurdles.
• Video footage from July 22 at a naturist campsite in Cap d’Agde shows Sébastien miming or performing a simulated fellation before an audience that included minors.
• Directors of the Cap d’Agde site issued public apologies to vacationers and opened a formal review of onstage conduct policies following the uproar.
• Sébastien’s legal team maintains the act was a harmless pantomime and denies any real sexual contact occurred as the singer continues other tour engagements.