Gims wants French nationality and apologizes for the New Year

• Gims "regrets" the video where he asks that we stop wishing him a happy new year for religious questions, he confided in the columns of

  the Sunday newspaper

   this Sunday.

• The singer denies being one of Valérie Pécresse's supporters.

• “I will reapply for nationality,” said Gims, one of whose “biggest regrets” is not being French.

Three weeks after the controversy, Gims returns to the video where he asks that we stop wishing him a happy new year for religious questions. “This video, I totally regret it”, he confides in the columns of the

this Sunday. “It was a UFO, I don't usually communicate like that. I didn't want to hurt people. Faith is intimate. Social networks should not be a springboard to talk about this. It in no way changes my relationship with my audience, animist, Buddhist, Catholic, Muslim…”, declares the singer.

“This video was made spontaneously, late at night.

I'm really sorry," he added.

He puts his fault on fatigue: “I was tired, I had just watched lots of snaps for the New Year. I was doing the con.

“The singer was “afraid” of being recovered as the presidential election approached: “When I saw my face everywhere, on all the channels, yes, it scared me.

I could not sleep.

»

“I do not support Valérie Pécresse”

These comments in the video posted on Instagram had reacted to several political figures including Éric Zemmour and Valérie Pécresse, whom he denies being a supporter. “I do not support Valérie Pécresse. […] I support her approach, as president of the Île-de-France region, for young talents. […] People think I'm calling for a vote, even though I don't have French nationality. I can't vote myself! “, called the one who intends to reapply for French nationality, which was refused to him, he announced.

“I will reapply for nationality.

I am a very patient person, not the type to give up,” he told the weekly.

The singer-songwriter, born Gandhi Djuna in Kinshasa in 1986, arrived in France at the age of two, from parents who were fleeing President Mobutu Sese Seko's Zaire at the time.

“I miss “the official paper”.

But that doesn't just depend on me.

Apparently the refusal is linked to an offense I allegedly committed when I was a minor.

But my locker is blank, ”explains the rapper.

The daily

, which publishes an investigation on Gims, however presents another version.

His first application for naturalization was filed in 2013, but "the procedure is bogged down".

“I present myself as a French artist.

Not Congolese »

According to "a former Minister of the Interior" interviewed by the newspaper, the refusal finally suffered in 2017 is due to "non-payment of fines for traffic offenses and his inability to establish in France the center of his material interests" .

The singer residing a good part of the year in Marrakech in Morocco.

Gims would have relaunched his request in 2018, raising the subject with the wife of President Brigitte Macron, without more success, according to

.

Not being French, “is one of my biggest regrets.

All my memories are in France.

[…] When I travel to Qatar, to the United States… I present myself as a French artist.

Not Congolese, ”he concludes in the columns of the

.

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