Rumours fly as racist French pianist falls to his death
NewsThe French pianist Stéphane Blet died on January 7 in a fall from an apartment balcony in Geneva.
Blet, 52, made two well-regarded recordings for Philips and composed 300 works that were performed by Cyprien Katsaris, Idil Biret and others. He was a cherished student of the American pianist Byron Janis.
Moving to Turkey in 2016, Blet became increasingly prone to propagating racist conspiracies. In October 2020 he was sentenced in France to six months in prison for spreading hatred and antisemitism.
Turkish media report that he went to Geneva last week to visit a friend. Swiss police are treating the case as suicide. But a member of Blet’s family claims that he was in good health and planning a broadcast that evening. Others say he had financial problems.
The French racist Dieudonné has blamed his death on ‘the Jewish mafia’.
“…the Jewish mafia.”
It was the space lasers, I’m sure.
https://dissentpins.com/collections/secret-jewish-space-laser
The segment in the Mel Brooks film History of the World part 1 entitled Jews in Space is documentary evidence that jews do indeed have space lasers.
“…the Jewish mafia.” Perfectly harmless and law-abiding, but could be too argumentative with an excessive fondness for Chinese food.
Space lasers? Really? Aren’t there easier ways of performing a briss?
we call this natural selection
rather Newton’s second law
A racist named “God-given”. “God-taken-away” would be more appropriate.
He makes the instrument sound
Like a cimbalom in the earlier right hand trills…not all of them – he alternates.
Such hypocrisy in these claims of racism and anti-semitism, since a huge cohort existing now in Europe is ostentatiously anti-Jewish from head to foot. But that’s OK because they’re a cherished minority!! Cough.
1. Racism is never okay. Regardless of whether you are a minority or not, France will prosecute people for inciting hate and racism.
2. Even if we concede to your claim that there is “a huge cohort” or minority racists, that doesn’t excuse other racists like this man. Logic 101.
Obviously, his last performance fell flat….
sharply said!
Diminished legacy as well……
Guys, don’t B flat, don’t B sharp, just B natural in your commenting–otherwise, just B quiet.
He wasn’t Johnny B. Goode. Johnny was a racist.
Oh, well, what a sad loss (not).
If it was the “Jewish mafia”, surely he would be sleeping with the Gefilte fishes?
I see a pattern here.
This is terrible- what a tragedy- can’t understand the flippant reactions here. Whether he was a racist or not (these things are open to conjecture)- his performance here of the Liszt Rhapsody is both brilliant & colourful- obviously a very talented pianist.
..but a bit of a sclemiel…the guy he landed on would be the schlamozzle.
It’s not easy to get 6 months in jail in France for antisemitism — France, being one of the most antisemitic countries in Europe!!! So, indeed the good pianist WAS a RACIST!
Maybe he was just mentally ill. A common symptom of mental illness is paranoia which is frequently expressed as racism towards specific groups. As a psychiatric nurse I hear it all the time. You can be a pretty brilliant person and still be plagued by unrelenting thoughts and voices that seem to be the truth.
Remember the brilliant chess international champion Bobby Fischer? He too later became a paranoid anti Semite who was partially Jewish!
Blet could have jumped out the window if he delusionally thought that something or someone was relentlessly out to get him and he could not do anything about it. Depression frequently goes hand in hand with paranoia and paralyzing fear
and anxiety. I’m kind of surprised that in France he was committed to jail rather than a psychiatric hospital.
Anyway, I am upset about the flippant tone here. Mental illness has very serious consequences both for the patient and those around him/her. It is not a joke.