2023-08-11 16:26:38
Medina during a rally of strikers in front of the TotalEnergies refinery in Gronfreville-l’Orcher (Seine-Maritime), March 24, 2023. LOU BENOIST / AFP
The Medina controversy continues. The Minister of Transport, Clément Beaune, one of the representatives of the left wing of the macronie, on Friday August 11 asked La France insoumise (LFI) and Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV) to distance themselves from the rapper, guest star of their next summer universities and who is again accused of anti-Semitism.
“I will always fight the extreme right. You are precisely playing the game with this unworthy invitation »said Clément Beaune to the address of LFI and the leader of the environmentalist party, Marine Tondelier. “It’s time to come to your senses”added the minister on X (Twitter), qualifying as« abject » one of the rapper’s last messages on the same network.
“Formula not suitable”
In this post published Thursday, Médine describes the Franco-Gambian artist and essayist Rachel Khan as “resKHANpee”namely a “person who has been thrown out of the hip-hop space, drifting among social traitors and literally eating at the table of the far right”. Message to which Rachel Khan, Jewish and granddaughter of a deportee, reacted on X by: ” All is said “resulting in a flood of comments on the anti-Semitic character of the pun invented by the rapper.
“No ambiguity. I attacked Rachel Khan’s career path. The unsuitable formula, which must certainly have offended people and I apologize for that, was not directed to his family or to the victims of the tragedy of the Holocaust”he then posted on Friday on X.
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This new incident reinforces the smell of sulfur surrounding Medina’s invitation to the LFI and EELV summer universities at the end of August. Since the announcement of his arrival by the national secretary of EELV, Marine Tondelier, voices have been raised to accuse the artist of anti-Semitism, homophobia, communitarianism and acquaintances with Islamism, in the light of certain past interviews, songs or positions.
The one who grew up in Le Havre has always denied being anti-Semitic or having links with Islamism, without going back on his most criticized gestures or statements. In one of his last interviews, with the anti-capitalist magazine Ballast dated July 15the artist opposes all forms of discrimination, calling for “to social justice”the fight against ” the extreme right “ and the end of “mechanisms of oppression that affect both LGBT populations, racialized people, feminists”.
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