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Thirteen people linked to a white nationalist group in France are facing charges for making a banner targeting French-Malian singer Aya Nakamura when it was announced she would perform in the 2024 Olympics. The group, part of an extreme-right collective called "Les Natifs" (The Natives), are facing charges for "publicly inciting hatred or violence - or complicity in such incitement - on the grounds of ethnicity, nationality, race, or religion," after unveiling a banner in March 2024 mocking Nakamura, one of the most popular French singers in the world, according to https://www.lemonde.fr/en/police-and-justice/article/2025/06/04/thirteen-go-on-trial-in-france-over-racist-insult-targeting-singer-aya-nakamura_6741990_105.html local news reports . The banner read, "No way, Aya, this is Paris, not the Bamako market," a reference to the capital of Mali. Nakamura, who performed during the opening ceremony of the Olympics in July 2024, filed a complaint with the Paris prosecutor's office after the March incident. This footage, captured on Wednesday, June 4, by Pike fr shows some of the defendants arriving at the Tribunal de Paris on Wednesday morning. Les Natifs reportedly buy into the "Great Replacement" theory, which purports that white Europeans are being deliberately replaced by non-white immigrants, https://www.lemonde.fr/en/police-and-justice/article/2025/06/04/thirteen-go-on-trial-in-france-over-racist-insult-targeting-singer-aya-nakamura_6741990_105.html local news said . (Footage by Pike fr/Storyful via Getty Images UGC)