Paris (AFP)

A complaint will be filed "in the next few days" in France and the United States for the use, without authorization in his presidential campaign by Donald Trump of the Village People's disco hit "YMCA", announced Thursday in Paris the lawyer for beneficiaries.

In the very last days of the campaign for the US presidential election, the world famous song + YMCA +, performed by the Village People, received equally massive and unauthorized use by candidate Donald Trump. and his team, both during their meetings and as the soundtrack of a promotional video broadcast around the world ", wrote in a press release Me Richard Malka, lawyer for the rights holders of two authors of this song .

This disco hit, which has made the whole planet dance since 1978, was written by two French people, Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo, and an American Victor Willis.

During his presidential campaign, carried out in a frantic way across the United States, Donald Trump concluded meetings with the famous song.

He also broadcast on Twitter Tuesday, to call to vote on polling day, a montage of several sequences of his meetings where we see him sketching dance steps, all smiles, with the soundtrack of this song of the Village People.

The beneficiaries of the French authors, "like the company Scorpio Music, owner of the work, discovered with amazement this misappropriation, which is more for partisan and electoral purposes for the benefit of Donald Trump, which they do not would never have accepted, "says Me Malka.

"This infringing use" will "be the subject of a complaint in the next few days, both in France and in the United States, against any initiator or accomplice of what constitutes outright theft of the property of others ", announces Me Malka.

The beneficiaries of Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo "from now on, prohibit anyone from disseminating the contentious video in question without their authorization," he warned.

This song - whose choreography is as famous as the lyrics, with the band members disguised as cowboys, Indians, policemen, construction workers, bikers and soldiers - references a male Christian youth movement, the Young Men's Christian association.

But in the years 1970-1980, she was also considered a standard bearer of the gay community.

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