Paris La Défense Arena

Yeah, there's been loads, mate.

La Defense Arena.

No, it's not a top-flight international game.

Japan have played France, eh? Oh, have they? Yeah, France.

According to Fox, French President Emmanuel Macron is facing criticism over his decision to attend a Celine Dion concert on Friday night on the evening of nationwide demonstrations that descended into violence, leaving hundreds of emergency personnel injured and nearly 1,800 people arrested.

Macron and his wife Brigitte were spotted at Dion's concert at the Plenitude Arena in Nanterre, west of Paris, according to French media reports.

The couple reportedly arrived and left discreetly.

They were among the roughly 35,000 spectators at the performance.

Oh, and if you've seen the vision, there's town halls burnt, cars set on fire, literally millions and millions of euros damage done and destroyed.

Macron and his wife Brigitte went to a Celine Dion concert at the Plenitude Arena in west of Paris.

And it came after he spent Thursday and Friday in Brussels attending that European Council meeting.

And during a conference there, he called for calm and respect.

In terms of this season, they have lost four games and some of them at home.

And one of the big struggles they've got at the moment is moving out of what was called La Défense Arena.

It's been renamed.

But they are moving back to Stade Evenement Noir in Cologne, kind of outskirts of Paris, which is where they were before they moved to La Défense.

They can't.

She opened at the Plenitude Arena out at La Defense, September the 12th, her first full concert in over six years.

Stiff Person Syndrome is why she'd stopped.

She canceled the Courage Tour back in 2022.

And the two run on their own clocks.

The audience has already made the call on Dionne, and it made it back in the '90s.

Nothing that happens at the Plenitude Arena can touch that.

Except it did, for the people who watched the fall.

Celine Dion slipped on stage and lost the thread of the lyrics to one of her well-known songs during a Paris concert on Wednesday, October 7th, 2026, an episode that has renewed discussion about whether a sustained return to performing remains within her reach.

Footage shared on Instagram and a report from the French newspaper Le Parisien indicate the incidents took place at Paris La Défense Arena, where the 58-year-old Canadian performer was partway through her 11th show of the run.

Midway through Pour Que Tu M'Aimes Encore, voices from the crowd joined the melody and Celine's expression visibly changed.

Before completing a statement that every lyric was known to her, she covered her face with her hands and the performance stalled.