July at the Vélodrome: Finding a ticket for the concert of the year, between parental setbacks and big scams

The teenager looked up from her cell phone to speak, which is how bad things are. "I don't understand... What's the point of being a journalist if you can't find a way to get tickets?" That's right, my spoiled girl, it's useless... except to recount the despair that has gripped you, like all of Marseille and beyond, since April 4.

That day, at exactly 9 a.m., more than a million people had simultaneously connected to one of the three platforms officially mandated to market the "surprise" announced two days earlier by the person concerned himself on his networks: Jul, aka le J, aka l'ovni , aka the Marseille rapper with 7 million albums sold and leader of all listening platforms, offered his "team" an additional date at the Orange Vélodrome, the day before the concert already scheduled for May 24 - and packed as soon as the ticket sales opened last year, just like the Parisian stage at the Stade de France on April 26 which brought together 97,816 spectators,